ailment

English

Etymology

From ail +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

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Noun

ailment (plural ailments)

1. Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 2/9/1, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days^[1]:

     He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

Translations

something which ails one; a disease; sickness

• Bulgarian: болест (bg) (bolest) f, болка (bg) (bolka) f
• Esperanto: malsano (eo)
• Finnish: sairaus (fi), vaiva (fi)
• German: Leiden n (1)
• Greek: ασθένεια (el) (asthéneia) f, αρρώστια (el) (aróstia) f, νόσος (el) (nósos) f, πάθηση (el) (páthisi) f
• Irish: breoiteacht (ga) f
• Italian: disturbo (it) m, indisposizione (it) f, affezione (it) f, male (it) m, malattia (it) f, acciacco (it) m

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ده‌رد

• Romanian: indispoziție
• Scottish Gaelic: galar (gd) m, tinneas (gd) m, euslaint (gd) f, trioblaid (gd) f
• Spanish: dolencia (es) f, enfermedad (es) f, achaque (es) m
• Telugu: రోగము (te)

External links

• ailment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• ailment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• aliment