Complete Definition of "pain"

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English

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Etymology
Old (and modern) French peine < L. poena "punishment, pain" < AGr.
�οινή (poine) "bloodmoney, were-gild, fine, price paid, penalty"

Pronunciation
IPA|/peɪn/
audio|en-us-pain.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪn|-eɪn

Homophones
pane

Noun
en-noun|s|-

  1. italbrac|countable and uncountable An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.

#: The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
#: I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.

  1. uncountable The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.

#: In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
#: The pain of departure was difficult to bear.

  1. countable An annoying person or thing.

#: Your mother is a right pain.

  1. uncountable obsolete Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.

#: You may not leave this room on pain of death.
#: Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. &mdash; Dryden
#: We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. &mdash; Bacon

Derived terms
painkiller
pain in the arse
pain in the ass
pain in the bum
pain in the butt
pain in the neck

Related terms
pained
painful
painfully
painless
painlessly
painlessness

Translations
trans-top|ache or bodily suffering
Albanian: dhembje f|p
Aleut: capu-tuk
Arabic: Arab|أ�� (�alám) m
Basque: min
Breton: poan f
Catalan: dolor m
Chinese: �� (téngtòng)
Croatian: bol m|f, muka f
Czech: bolest f
Danish: smerte
Dutch: pijn m|f
Finnish: kipu, kärsimys, särky, tuska
French: douleur m
German: Schmerz m
Greek: ��νο� (ponos) m, άλγο� (algos) n
Guaraní: rasy, tasy
Hungarian: fájdalom, kín
Indonesian: sakit, nyeri
trans-mid
Italian: dolore m
Japanese: �� (���, itami), ��, (���, kutsū)
Korean: �� (apeum)
Kurdish: KUchar|ئازار, KUchar|�ا�
Latin: dolor m
Lithuanian: skausmas m, kan�ia f, g�la f
Old Church Slavonic: t|cu|бол�|tr=bolĭ|f
Persian: FAchar|درد (dard)
Polish: ból m
Pitjantjatjara: pika
Portuguese: dor m
Romanian: durere f, chin m|f
Russian: бол� (bol�) f
Slovene: bole�ina f
Spanish: dolor m
Swedish: smärta c
Turkish: dert or derd
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trans-top|suffering or anguish, especially mental
Chinese: �� (tòngk�)
Dutch: pijn m|f
Greek: θλί�η (thlipse) f, ��ενο���ια (stenokhoria) f, καημ�� (kaemos) m, άγ�ο� (ankhos) n
Japanese: �� (���, itami), ��, (���, kutsū)
Kurdish: KUchar|د��رد
trans-mid
Russian: бол� (bol�) f
Slovene: bole�ina f
Spanish: pena f
Swedish: smärta c
Turkish: dert
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trans-top|annoying person or thing
Greek: μ�ελά� (belas) m
trans-mid
Japanese: 頭��種 (zutsū-no-tane)
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trans-top|suffering as punishment
Greek: �ιμ��ία (timoria) f
Finnish: piinaaminen
Italian: pena f
trans-mid
Spanish: pena f
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ttbc|CJKV Characters: �
ttbc|Interlingua: dolor
ttbc|Telugu: న�ప�పి (neppi), న�ప�పి (noppi)
ttbc|Tupinambá: asy (t-)
ttbc|Spanish: molestia (3), fastidio (3)

Verb
en-verb

  1. transitive To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

#: The wound pained him.

  1. transitive To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

#: It pains me to say that I must let you go.

  1. transitive obsolete To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Translations
trans-top|to hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish
Dutch: kwetsen
German: schmerzen
trans-mid
Russian: п�и�ин��� бол�, пов�ежда��
Spanish: apenar, doler
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trans-top|to render uneasy in mind, to grieve
Italian: addolorare, affliggere
Spanish: apenar
trans-mid
Swedish: smärta
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trans-top|to inflict suffering upon as a penalty
Spanish: castigar, condenar
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References
R:Webster 1913

Category:1000 English basic words


Finnish

Noun
pain

  1. fi-form of|pai|typenoun|casegenitive|pl=singular

French

Etymology
Old French pan, from Latin panis.

Pronunciation
IPA|/p��/, SAMPA|/pE~/
audio|Fr-Pain-fr-Paris.ogg|Audio (FR)

Homophones
pin

Noun
pain m

  1. bread

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