English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From ail -ment
Pronunciation [ edit ] ailment (plural ailments
Something which ails one; a disease ; sickness .
1922 Michael Arlen , “2/9/1 ”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days [1] He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments , and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] something which ails one; a disease; sickness
Apache:
Western Apache: kaa naghaa
Arabic: مَرَض (ar) ( maraḍ ) , اعتِلال وَعكَة
Bikol Central: hilang (bcl)
Bulgarian: болест (bg) f ( bolest ) , болка (bg) f ( bolka )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 疾病 (zh) ( jíbìng )
Danish: lidelse (da) c sygdom (da) c svaghed c
Dutch: aandoening (nl) f
Esperanto: malsano (eo) , afekcio
Finnish: sairaus (fi) , vaiva (fi)
French: maladie (fr) f
Galician: doenza (gl) f enfermidade (gl) f
German: Leiden (de) n
Greek: ασθένεια (el) f ( asthéneia ) , αρρώστια (el) f ( arróstia ) , νόσος (el) f ( nósos ) , πάθηση (el) f ( páthisi )
Ancient: νόσος f ( nósos )
Irish: breoiteacht f
Italian: disturbo (it) m indisposizione (it) f affezione (it) f male (it) m malattia (it) f acciacco (it) m malanno (it) m
Japanese: 病気 (ja) ( びょうき, byōki )
Kazakh: ауру (kk) ( auru ) , дерт ( dert ) , кесел ( kesel ) , науқас ( nauqas )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دەرد ( derd )
Latin: morbus (la)
Occitan: malautiá (oc) f
Polish: dolegliwość (pl) f
Portuguese: enfermidade (pt) f
Romanian: indispoziție (ro)
Russian: боле́знь (ru) f ( boléznʹ ) , неду́г (ru) m ( nedúg ) , нездоро́вье (ru) n ( nezdoróvʹje ) , недомога́ние (ru) n ( nedomogánije )
Scottish Gaelic: galar m tinneas m euslaint f trioblaid f
Spanish: dolencia (es) f enfermedad (es) f achaque (es) m alifafe (es)
Telugu: రోగము (te) ( rōgamu )
Turkish: hastalık (tr) , rahatsızlık (tr)
Further reading [ edit ] “ailment ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC “ailment ”, in The Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC Anagrams [ edit ]