trauma

See also Trauma

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (trauma, “wound, damage”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈtɹɔː.mə/, /ˈtɹaʊ.mə/

Rhymes: -ɔːmə, -aʊmə

• (US) IPA: /ˈtɹɑ.mə/, IPA: /ˈtɹɔ.mə/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈtɹɑ.mə/

Noun

trauma (plural traumas or traumata)

1. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
2. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, Guardian:

     Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

3. An event that causes great distress.

Derived terms

• traumatise/traumatize

Translations

Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident

• Arabic: إصابة (ar) (ʾiṣāba) f
• Belarusian: траўма (be) (tráŭma) f
• Bulgarian: травма (bg) (trávma) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 負傷 (cmn), 负伤 (cmn) (fùshāng), 損傷 (cmn), 损伤 (cmn) (sǔnshāng), 外傷 (cmn), 外伤 (cmn) (wàishāng), 創傷 (cmn), 创伤 (cmn) (chuāngshāng)

• Czech: trauma (cs) n, úraz (cs) m
• Finnish: vamma (fi)
• French: traumatisme (fr)
• Galician: trauma (gl) f, traumatismo (gl) m
• German: Trauma (de) n
• Greek: τραύμα (el) (trávma) n
• Hebrew: טראומה (he) (trɑʾumɑ) f
• Italian: trauma (it) m

• Japanese: 外傷 (ja) (がいしょう, gaishō), 損傷 (ja) (そんしょう, sonshō)
• Korean: 외상 (ko) (oesang) (外傷 (ko))
• Macedonian: траума (mk) (tráuma) f
• Polish: uraz (pl) m
• Portuguese: traumatismo (pt) m
• Russian: травма (ru) (trávma) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: траума (sh) f

  Roman: trauma (sh) f

• Slovak: trauma (sk) n, urážka (sk) f
• Slovene: travma (sl) f, poškodba (sl) f
• Turkish: travma (tr), sakatlık (tr)
• Ukrainian: травма (uk) (trávma) m
• Vietnamese: chấn thương (vi)

An emotional wound leading to psychological injury

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精神創傷 (cmn), 精神创伤 (cmn) (jīngshén chuāngshāng)

• Czech: trauma (cs) n
• Finnish: trauma (fi)
• French: traumatisme (fr)
• Galician: trauma (gl) f
• German: Trauma (de) n

• Hebrew: טראומה (he) (trɑʾumɑ) f
• Japanese: トラウマ (ja) (torauma), 心的外傷 (ja) (shinteki gaishō)
• Polish: trauma (pl) f, uraz (pl) m psychiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: trauma (pt) m
• Russian: травма (ru) (trávma) f, рана (ru) (rána) f
• Serbo-Croatian: траума (sh) (trauma) f
• Turkish: travma (tr)

An event that causes great distress

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 痛苦的經歷 (cmn), 痛苦的经历 (cmn) (tòngkǔ de jīnglì), 挫折 (cmn) (cuòzé)

• Finnish: trauma (fi)
• French: traumatisme (fr)
• German: Trauma (de) n

• Hebrew: טראומה (he) (trɑʾumɑ) f
• Portuguese: trauma (pt) m
• Russian: травма (ru) (trávma) f
• Spanish: trauma (es) m
• Turkish: travma (tr)

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• Spanish: trauma (es) f

Anagrams

• matura

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Czech

Noun

trauma n

1. trauma

Declension

    declension of trauma

	singular	plural
nominative	trauma	traumata
genitive	traumatu	traumat
dative	traumatu	traumatům
accusative	trauma	traumata
vocative	trauma	traumata
locative	traumatu	traumatech
instrumental	traumatem	traumaty

Related terms

• traumatický
• traumatizovat
• traumatologie

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Finnish

Noun

trauma

1. trauma

Declension

Declension of trauma (type kala) singular plural nominative trauma traumat genitive trauman traumojen traumain1 partitive traumaa traumoja accusative trauma trauman traumat inessive traumassa traumoissa elative traumasta traumoista illative traumaan traumoihin adessive traumalla traumoilla ablative traumalta traumoilta allative traumalle traumoille essive traumana traumoina translative traumaksi traumoiksi instructive – traumoin abessive traumatta traumoitta comitative – traumoineen 1) Rare.

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Galician

Noun

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. an emotional wound
2. (medicine) trauma; serious physical injury

Related terms

• traumático
• traumatismo
• traumatizar

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Italian

Noun

trauma m (plural traumi)

1. trauma

Anagrams

• matura, murata

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /trǎuma/
• Hyphenation: tra‧u‧ma

Noun

tràuma f (Cyrillic spelling тра̀ума)

1. trauma

Declension

    declension of trauma

	singular	plural
nominative	tràuma	traume
genitive	traume	trȁūmā
dative	traumi	traumama
accusative	traumu	traume
vocative	traumo	traume
locative	traumi	traumama
instrumental	traumom	traumama

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Spanish

Noun

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. trauma

Related terms

• traumatizar
• traumático
• traumatizante
• traumado