hardship

English

Etymology

From Middle English herdschipe, hardischipe, equivalent to hard +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/

Noun

hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)

1. Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

   He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

Antonyms

• softship

Translations

difficulty or trouble

• Arabic: مَشَقَّة f (mašaqqa), شِدَّة f (šidda)
• Belarusian: ця́жкасць f (cjážkascʹ), няго́ды f pl (njahódy)
• Bulgarian: трудност (bg) f (trudnost), затруднение (bg) n (zatrudnenie)
• Catalan: dificultats (ca) f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 困難／困难 (zh), 困难 (zh) (kùnnan)

• Dutch: ellende (nl) f
• Faroese: trupulleikar m pl
• Finnish: vaikeus (fi), vastoinkäyminen (fi), vaiva (fi)
• French: difficultés (fr) f pl, misère (fr) f
• Galician: traballos m pl, dificultade (gl) m, apuro (gl) m
• Georgian: სირთულეები (sirtuleebi)
• German: Härte (de) f, Not (de) f, Entbehrung (de) f, Mühsal (de) f, Elend (de) n, Beschwernis (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: μόχθος m (mókhthos)

• Icelandic: þrengingar f pl
• Ido: privaco (io), sufro (io)
• Ilocano: rigat
• Irish: anró m (due to severe weather)
• Italian: avversità (it), difficoltà (it)
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• Japanese: 苦難 (ja) (くなん, kunan), 苦しみ (ja) (くるしみ, kurushimi), 難儀 (ja) (なんぎ, nangi)
• Korean: 어려움 (ko) (eoryeoum)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: aerumna f
• Maori: uauatanga, whakapāwera
• Marathi: हालअपेष्टा (hālapeṣṭā)
• Mongolian: гачигдал (mn) (gačigdal), зовлон зүдүүр (zovlon züdüür)
• Norwegian: motgang (no) m, lidelse (no) m
• Old English: earfeþe n
• Persian: مشقت (fa) (mašaqqat), سختی (fa) (saxti)
• Polish: trudność (pl) f
• Portuguese: dificuldade (pt) f, apuro (pt) m
• Romanian: greutate (ro) f, dificultate (ro) f, adversitate (ro) f
• Russian: тру́дность (ru) f (trúdnostʹ), тя́готы f pl (tjágoty), затрудне́ние (ru) n (zatrudnénije), невзго́ды f pl (nevzgódy)
• Scottish Gaelic: èiginn f
• Slovene: težava (sl) f, stiska f
• Spanish: sufrimientos (es), apuro (es)
• Telugu: ఇబ్బంది (te) (ibbandi), కష్టం (te) (kaṣṭaṁ), ఇడుము (te) (iḍumu)
• Turkish: zorluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: тру́дність f (trúdnistʹ), тру́днощі f pl (trúdnošči), тя́готи f pl (tjáhoty)

Verb

hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple past and past participle hardshipped)

1. (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
   • 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)

     […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]

   • 1970, Reading Reform Foundation, The Annual Reading Reform Foundation Conference, page 47:

     Although we lost the election by the narrowest of margins, the people of Oregon heard a great deal about education, and particularly about how "look-say" reading instruction was hardshipping Oregon school children.