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born

 
 
/bɔːn/ verb

Translation

be born When a person or animal is born, they come out of their mother's body and start to exist.
dünyaya gelmek, doğmak
She was born in London in 1973. an American-born writer (= born in America) 459
If an idea is born, it starts to exist.
doğmak,(bir fikir) ortaya çıkmak
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(Definition of born verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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