hardship

English

Etymology

From Middle English herdschipe, hardischipe, equivalent to hard +‎ -ship.

Noun

hardship (plural hardships)

1. (countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

   He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

Translations

difficulty or trouble

Arabic: مشقة (ar) (masháqqa) f. Catalan: dificultats (ca) f. pl. Chinese: Mandarin: 困難 (cmn), 困难 (cmn) (kùnnan) Finnish: vaikeus (fi), vastoinkäyminen (fi), vaiva (fi) French: difficultés (fr) f. pl., misère (fr) f. German: Härte (de) f., Not (de) f. Italian: avversità (it), difficoltà (it) Japanese: 苦難 (ja) (くなん, kunan), 苦しみ (ja) (くるしみ, kurushimi), 難儀 (ja) (なんぎ, nangi)

Korean: 어려움 (eoryeoum) Kurdish: ئه‌رک Marathi: हालअपेष्टा (hālapeshtā) Norwegian: motgang (no) m., lidelse (no) m. Old English: earfeþe (ang) n. Russian: трудность (ru) (trúdnost') f. Scottish Gaelic: èiginn (gd) f. Spanish: sufrimientos (es), apuro (es) Telugu: ఇబ్బంది (ibbaMdi), కష్టం (kashTaM), ఇడుము (iDumu) Turkish: zorluk (tr)