hurt

English

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Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)t

Etymology

Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan 'to injure, scathe, knock together', 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 *xerutuz, xerutaz 'hart'. 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”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hūrt "a battering ram" from Proto-Germanic *hrūtanan (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krow- (“to fall, beat, break”), also 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.
3. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

Synonyms

• wound, injure

Derived terms

• wouldn't hurt a fly

Translations

to be painful

Armenian: ցավել (hy) (c’avel) Chinese: Mandarin: (adjective) 疼 (cmn) (téng), (adjective) 痛 (cmn) (tòng) Croatian: boljeti (hr) Czech: bolet (cs) Dutch: pijn doen, zeer 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) Japanese: 傷つける (きずつける, kizu-tsukeru), (adjective) 痛い (ja) (itai) Korean: 아프다 (ko)

Latin: doleō (la) Latvian: sāpēt (lv) Luxembourgish: wéi doen (lb) Polish: boleć (pl) Portuguese: doer (pt) Romanian: durea (ro) Russian: болеть (ru) (bolét') Scottish Gaelic: ciùrr Spanish: doler (es) Swedish: göra ont (sv) Telugu: బాధాకరం (te) (badhakaram), నొప్పించు (te) (nopiincu) Thai: เจ็บ (th) Turkish: ağrımak (tr), acımak (tr)

to cause physical pain

Arabic: جرح (ar) (jaraHa) 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, pijnigen, kwellen, kwetsen Finnish: satuttaa (fi) French: blesser (fr) German: verletzen (de) Hebrew: לפגוע (he) (lif-'go-a) Icelandic: særa (is), meiða (is) Indonesian: melukai (id)

Italian: ferire (it) Japanese: 傷つける (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 (ru) (pričinját' bol'), причинить боль (ru) (pričinít' bol') Scottish Gaelic: ciùrr Spanish: lastimar, hacer daño Swahili: kilemba (sw) Swedish: såra (sv) Telugu: గాయము చేయు (te) (gayamu ceyu) Thai: เจ็บ Turkish: acıtmak (tr), ağrıtmak (tr)

to cause emotional pain

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

German: quälen (de) Latvian: sāpināt (lv) Portuguese: magoar (pt) Telugu: మనసు మెలిపెట్టు (te) (manasu melipettu)

Adjective

hurt

1. Wounded, physically injured.
2. Pained.

Translations

wounded, injured

Armenian: վիրավոր (hy) (viravor) Dutch: gekwetst (nl), gewond (nl), geblesseerd (nl) French: blessé (fr) German: verletzt (de) Norwegian: skadet (no) Portuguese: machucado (pt), ferido (pt)

Scottish Gaelic: ciùrrte Serbian: рањен (sr) (ranjen) m., повређен (sr) (povređen) m. Swahili: kilemba (sw) Swedish: skadad (sv), sårad (sv) Telugu: గాయపడు (te) (gayapadu)

pained

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. (archaic) A wound or pain.
   • 1605, I have received a hurt. — William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vii
2. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

Related terms

• hurty

Anagrams

• Ruth, ruth, thru, Thur, thur

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Polish

Etymology

From Middle High German

Noun

hurt m.

1. wholesale

Declension

	Singular only
Nominative	hurt
Genitive	hurtu
Dative	hurtowi
Accusative	hurt
Instrumental	hurtem
Locative	hurcie
Vocative	hurcie

Derived terms

• hurtowy, hurtownia, hurtownik