Confused about the word Pregnancy.
Hola!
I'm a beginner, and discovered that there are so many words for pragnancy. I woul'd like to know more about these words from all of you that are more familiar with spanish.
I woul'd like to know the differents between the usage of the words. For example what the most common word is for pregnancy. I found these words: gestante, embarazada, encinte, preñada, fecundo, en estado.
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To Gocika - this is interesting because I too wondered about the origins of this, whether it was to do with religious sensitivities or social, possibly in the case of illegitimate pregnancies.
Firstly you can see SD's own dictioanry definiton of embarazadamente link text
Here's an entry from WordReference.com
embarazar
1.tr. Impedir, estorbar: la muchedumbre le embarazaba el paso.
2.Dejar encinta a una mujer.
3.prnl. Quedarse embarazada una mujer.
4.Hallarse entorpecido o confundido ante algo o alguien: ante tantos halagos se embarazó y no supo cómo responder. ? Se conj. como cazar.
Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005 Espasa-Calpe: embarazado, da
1.adj. Molesto, incómodo: ante tu pregunta se mostró embarazado.
2.[Mujer] preñada. También f.: las embarazadas deben cuidar su dieta.
Hi llseD, elsa, I found some other info from Medline Plus. It is in Spanish, but you can get English also. There are links there to English sites.link text
Embarazada , encinta , preñada, en estado.
Embarazada is the more familiar.
En estado or encinta is very formal use
Preñada sound a little bad.
Hi Lise. I have an article from Wikapedia. It is in Spanish, but on the far left you can set in to English or many other languages. It may help to answer your questions. link text
One more. I think my computer is going to crash. link text
Embarazada connects to Embarrassed in my mind. Is there really any connection in the origin of the words?
