harm

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Etymology

From Old English hearm.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)m

Noun

harm (plural harms)

1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
2. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.

Translations

injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune

• Afar: please add this translation if you can
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• Albanian: dëm (sq) m
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: ضرر (ar) (ḍárar) m
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• Asturian: dañu (ast) m
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• Azeri: zərər (az)
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• Belarusian: шкода (be) (škóda) f
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• Catalan: dany (ca) m
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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 損害 (cmn), 损害 (cmn) (sǔnhài)

• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: poškození (cs) n
• Danish: skade (da), skade (da)
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• Dutch: schade (nl) m
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• Estonian: kahju (et)
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• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vahinko (fi)
• French: mal (fr) m, tort (fr) m, dommage (fr) m
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• German: Schaden (de) m
• Greek: βλάβη (el) (vlávi) f
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• Hawaiian: māino, pōpilikia
• Hebrew: נזק (he) (nézek) m
• Hindi: नुक़सान (hi) (nuqsān) m, हानि (hi) (hāni) f
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• Irish: dochar (ga) m, díobháil (ga) f
• Italian: male m (2), danno (it) m
• Japanese: 損害 (ja) (そんがい, songai)
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• Khmer: អំពើអាក្រក់ (km) (ɑmpəə aakrɑk)
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• Korean: 해 (ko) (hae)
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• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: mudarat (ms), keburukan (ms)
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• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Mirandese: danho m
• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: dam (oc) m
• Old English: hearm (ang)
• Old Saxon: harm
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• Persian: آسیب (fa) (âsib)
• Polish: szkoda (pl) f
• Portuguese: dano (pt) m, mal (pt) m
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• Romanian: pagubă (ro) f, daună (ro) f, prejudiciu (ro) n; rău (ro) n, nedreptate (ro) f
• Russian: вред (ru) (vred) m, ущерб (ru) (uščérb) m, повреждение (ru) (povreždénije) n
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• Scottish Gaelic: aimhleas (gd) m, baoghal (gd) m, coire (gd) m, ciùrradh (gd) m, cron (gd) m, olc (gd) m, milleadh (gd) m, dochann (gd) m, coire (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: повреда (sh) f; штета (sh) f

  Roman: povreda (sh) f; šteta (sh) f

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• Slovak: poškodenie (sk) n
• Spanish: daño (es) m
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• Telugu: హాని (te) (hāni)
• Turkish: zarar (tr), hasar (tr), ziyan (tr), incinme (tr)
• Ukrainian: шкода (uk) (škóda) f
• Urdu: نقصان (ur) (nuqsān) m
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that which causes injury, damage, or loss

• Finnish: vahinko (fi), haitta (fi)

Verb

harm (third-person singular simple present harms, present participle harming, simple past and past participle harmed)

1. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

Translations

cause damage

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• Armenian: վնասել (hy) (vnasel)
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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 損害 (cmn), 损害 (cmn) (sǔnhài)

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• Dutch: schaden (nl), beschadigen (nl)
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• Finnish: vahingoittaa (fi)
• French: nuire à
• German: schaden (de)
• Greek: βλάπτω (el) (vlápto)
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• Irish: déan dochar do (ga), déan díobháil do (ga)
• Italian: danneggiare (it)
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• Latin: noceō (la) m
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• Portuguese: ferir (pt), fazer mal (pt), afligir (pt), machucar (pt)
• Romanian: vătăma (ro), strica (ro), dăuna (ro)
• Russian: вредить (ru) (vredít') impf., повредить (ru) (povredít') pf., навредить (ru) (navredít') pf.
• Scottish Gaelic: mill (gd), cuir cron air
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оштетити (sh), повредити (sh) / повриједити (sh), шкодити (sh)

  Roman: oštetiti (sh), povrediti (sh) / povrijediti (sh), škoditi (sh)

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• Spanish: dañar (es)
• Telugu: హాని (te) (hāni)
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Related terms

• harmer
• harmless
• harm's way
• self-harm
• unharmed

Anagrams

• mahr

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *harmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱormo- (“suffering, pain”). Compare Old Norse harmr, Old English hearm, Modern German Harm, Avestan fšarǝma, Middle Persian šarm, Modern Persian شرم (šarm).

Noun

harm m

1. harm