confinement

English

Etymology

From French confinement

Noun

confinement (countable and uncountable, plural confinements)

the act of confining or the state of being confined
lying-in, time of giving birth
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1
  At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement.

Translations

state of being confined

Bulgarian: ограничение (bg) n (ograničenie)
Catalan: confinament m
Czech: zajetí (cs) n
French: confinement (fr) m
Galician: confinamento (gl) m

Greek: φυλάκιση (el) f (fylákisi)
Korean: 갇힘 n (gathim), 얽매임 n (eongmaeim), 속박 (ko) n (sokbak), 구금 (ko) (gugeum), 감금 (ko) (gamgeum)
Latin: inclūsiō f
Russian: заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije), заточение (ru) n (zatočenije), ограниче́ние (ru) n (ograničénije)
Spanish: confinamiento (es) m

lying-in

Greek: τοκετός (el) m (toketós)
Russian: ро́ды (ru) pl (ródy)

Yiddish: קימפּעט‎ f (kimpet)

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