childless

English

From Middle English childles; equivalent to child +‎ -less.

childless (not comparable)

Not having any children.
- 1899, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter I, in The Sleeper Awakes‎:
  I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?

not having any children

Azerbaijani: sonsuz (az), övladsız, oğul-uşaqsız
Belarusian: бяздзе́тны (bjazdzjétny)
Bulgarian: безде́тен (bezdéten)
Catalan: sense fills
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沒有兒女的／没有儿女的 (méiyǒu érnǚ de), 無子女的／无子女的 (wúzǐnǚ de), 無兒無女的／无儿无女的 (wú'érwúnǚ de)
Czech: bezdětný (cs)
Danish: barnløs (da)
Dutch: kinderloos (nl)
Esperanto: seninfana
Finnish: lapseton (fi)
French: sans enfants
Galician: sen fillos
German: kinderlos (de)
Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍃 (unbarnahs)
Greek:
Ancient: ἄτεκνος (áteknos), ἄπαις (ápais)
Hungarian: gyermektelen (hu)
Interlingua: sin infantes
Irish: gan chlann, gan chúram, gan leanbh
Japanese: 子供のいない (こどものいない, kodomo no inai)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bêzarok (ku)
Lithuanian: bevaikis
Macedonian: бездетен (bezdeten)
Maori: huatea, huamutu
Middle English: childles, barnles
Norwegian:
Bokmål: barnløs, barnlaus

Nynorsk: barnlaus
Old English: bearnlēas
Polish: bezdzietny (pl), bezpotomny (pl)
Portuguese: sem filhos
Russian: безде́тный (ru) (bezdétnyj)
Slovak: bezdetný
Spanish: sin hijos
Swahili: gumba (sw)
Swedish: barnlös (sv)
Turkish: çocuksuz (tr)
Ukrainian: безді́тний (uk) (bezdítnyj)

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