hurt

English

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /hɜːt/
• (GenAm) IPA: /hɝt/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Etymology

From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), probably from Anglo-Norman hurter (“to ram into, strike, collide with”) (compare French heurter (“to knock against, oppose”)), ultimately from Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”). More at hart. Old French also gave Middle High German hurten and Dutch horten.

Alternate etymology traces Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan to Old Northern French hurter (“to ram into, strike, collide with”), from Old Frankish *hūrt (“battering ram”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtanan (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krow- (“to fall, beat, break”), related to Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Old Norse hrūtr (“battering ram”).

Verb

hurt (third-person singular simple present hurts, present participle hurting, simple past and past participle hurt)

1. (intransitive) To be painful.

   Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.

2. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.

   If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.

3. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
4. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.

   This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.

Synonyms

• wound, injure

Derived terms

• wouldn't hurt a fly

Translations

to be painful

• Armenian: ցավել (hy) (c’avel) 
• Aromanian: dor (rup)
• Catalan: doldre (ca), doler (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疼 (cmn) (téng) (adjective), 痛 (cmn) (tòng) (adjective)

• Czech: bolet (cs)
• Dalmatian: dolar
• Dutch: pijn doen, zeer (nl) doen
• Finnish: sattua (fi), koskea (fi)
• French: faire mal (fr)
• German: weh tun (de), schmerzen (de)
• Hungarian: fáj (hu)
• Icelandic: vera vont (is), meiða (is)
• Indonesian: melukai (id)
• Italian: dolere (it)
• Japanese: 傷つける (ja) (きずつける, kizu-tsukeru), 痛い (ja) (itai) (adjective)
• Korean: 아프다 (ko) (apeuda)
• Latin: doleō (la)

• Latvian: sāpēt (lv)
• Luxembourgish: wéi doen (lb)
• Occitan: dòler (oc), dòlre (oc)
• Pipil: -kukua, -cucúa
• Polish: boleć (pl)
• Portuguese: doer (pt)
• Romanian: durea (ro)
• Romansch: dulair (rm), dular (rm), duler (rm), duleir (rm), dolair (rm)
• Russian: болеть (ru) (bolétʹ)  impf.
• Sardinian: dòlere (sc), doli (sc), dòliri (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: ciùrr (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: boljeti (sh)
• Spanish: doler (es)
• Swedish: göra ont (sv)
• Telugu: బాధాకరం (te) (badhakaram), నొప్పించు (te) (nopiincu)
• Thai: เจ็บ (th) (jèp)
• Turkish: ağrımak (tr), acımak (tr)

to cause physical pain and/or injury

• Arabic: جرح (ar) (jaraḥa)
• Armenian: ցավեցնել (hy) (c’avec’nel) , վնասել (hy) (vnasel) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傷害 (cmn), 伤害 (cmn) (shānghài), 傷 (cmn), 伤 (cmn) (shāng)

• Czech: ranit (cs), poranit (cs)
• Dutch: pijn aandoen (nl), pijnigen (nl), kwellen (nl), kwetsen (nl)
• Finnish: satuttaa (fi)
• French: blesser (fr)
• German: verletzen (de)
• Hebrew: פגע (he) (pagá')
• Icelandic: særa (is), meiða (is)
• Indonesian: melukai (id)
• Italian: ferire (it)

• Japanese: 傷つける (ja) (きずつける, kizu-tsukeru)
• Latvian: sāpināt (lv)
• Portuguese: ferir (pt), machucar (pt), aleijar (pt)
• Romanian: răni (ro), vătăma (ro)
• Russian: причинять боль (pričinjátʹ bolʹ) impf., причинить боль (pričinítʹ bolʹ) pf., ранить (ru) (ránitʹ) 
• Scottish Gaelic: ciùrr (gd)
• Spanish: lastimar (es), hacer daño
• Swahili: kilemba (sw)
• Swedish: såra (sv)
• Telugu: గాయము చేయు (te) (gayamu ceyu)
• Thai: เจ็บ (th)
• Turkish: acıtmak (tr), ağrıtmak (tr)

to cause emotional pain

• Armenian: ցավեցնել (hy) (c’avec’nel) 
• Czech: ranit (cs)
• Dutch: pijn doen (nl), kwetsen (nl)
• French: faire mal (fr), blesser (fr)
• German: quälen (de)

• Latvian: sāpināt (lv)
• Portuguese: magoar (pt)
• Russian: причинять боль (pričinjátʹ bolʹ) impf., причинить боль (pričinítʹ bolʹ) pf., ранить (ru) (ránitʹ) 
• Telugu: మనసు మెలిపెట్టు (te) (manasu melipettu)

Adjective

hurt (comparative more hurt, superlative most hurt)

1. Wounded, physically injured.
2. Pained.

Translations

wounded, injured

• Armenian: վիրավոր (hy) (viravor) 
• Burmese: နာ (my) (na)
• Dutch: gekwetst (nl), gewond (nl), geblesseerd (nl)
• French: blessé (fr)
• German: verletzt (de)
• Hindi: घायल (hi) (ghāyal), आहत (hi) (āhat)
• Korean: 아픈 (ko)
• Norwegian: skadet (no)
• Persian: زخمی (fa) (zaxmī)

• Portuguese: machucado (pt), ferido (pt)
• Sanskrit: आहत (sa) (āhata)
• Scottish Gaelic: ciùrrte
• Serbo-Croatian: рањен (sh) (ranjen) m, повређен (sh) (povređen) m
• Swahili: kilemba (sw)
• Swedish: skadad (sv), sårad (sv)
• Telugu: గాయపడు (te) (gayapadu)
• Urdu: زخمی (ur) (zaḵẖmī), اہت (ur) (āhat)

pained

• Burmese: နာ (my) (na)
• Dutch: pijn gedaan (nl)

• Swahili: kilemba (sw)
• Telugu: బాధపడిన (te) (badhapadina)

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• Indonesian: melukai, dilukai, terluka
• Japanese:
  • 傷つけた (きずつけた, kizu-tsuketa)
  • 傷つけられる (きずつけられる, kizu-tsukerareru)
  • 傷つけられた (きずつけられた, kizu-tsukerareta)
  • 傷つく (きずつく, kizu-tsuku)
  • 傷ついた (きずついた, kizu-tsuita)
• Swedish: gjort ont (1), sårat (2)
• Mandarin: 傷害
• Vietnamese: tổn thương, làm tổn thương

Noun

hurt (plural hurts)

1. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
   • How to overcome old hurts of the past
2. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
   • 1605, Shakespeare, King Lear vii

     I have received a hurt.

   • John Locke

     The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel.

3. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
   • Shakespeare

     Thou dost me yet but little hurt.

4. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

Related terms

• hurty

Anagrams

• Ruth, ruth, thru, Thur, thur

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Etymology

From Middle High German

Noun

hurt m

1. wholesale

Declension

    declension of hurt

	singular only
nominative	hurt
genitive	hurtu
dative	hurtowi
accusative	hurt
instrumental	hurtem
locative	hurcie
vocative	hurcie

Derived terms

• hurtowy, hurtownia, hurtownik