baby shower

English

Etymology

baby shower (in the sense of being showered with gifts), perhaps influenced by bridal shower.

Pronunciation

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Noun

baby shower (plural baby showers)

1. A party celebrating the pending or recent birth of a child, involving guests giving gifts (typically babycare items) to the parent(s).

Translations

party

• Arabic: حَفْل قُدُوم المَوْلُود المُنْتَظِر m (ḥafl qudūm al-mawlūd al-muntaẓir)
• Catalan: festa de naixement, festa prenatal
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嬰兒沐浴／婴儿沐浴 (yīng'ér mùyù) (calque of English)

• Finnish: vauvakutsut, baby shower
• French: fête prénatale f, baby shower (fr) m
• German: Babyparty f, Baby Shower f
• Hindi: गोद भराई (god bharāī)
• Hungarian: babaváró parti/buli, babaköszöntő
• Japanese: ベビーシャワー (bebī shawā)
• Kannada: ಸೀಮಂತ (kn) (sīmanta)
• Macedonian: повојница f (povojnica)
• Malay: rai bayi
• Malayalam: സീമന്തം (ml) (sīmantaṁ)
• Portuguese: chá de bebê
• Russian: бе́би-ша́уэр m (bɛ́bi-šáuer) (US, various spellings exist), пра́здник для бу́дущей ма́мы m (prázdnik dlja búduščej mámy)
• Serbo-Croatian: darivanje djeteta n
• Spanish: baby shower (es) m, fiesta de pañales f (Argenitina)
• Tamil: வளைகாப்பு (ta) (vaḷaikāppu), சீமந்தம் (ta) (cīmantam)
• Telugu: సీమంతం (te) (sīmantaṁ)
• Tulu: ಬಯಕ್ಕೆ (bayakke), ಬಯಕೆ (bayake)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baby shower.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbeibi ˈʃaweɾ/ [ˌbei̯.β̞i ˈʃa.weɾ]

Noun

baby shower m (plural baby showers)

1. baby shower

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.