English [ edit ]
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Etymology [ edit ]
From Middle English harm , herm , from Old English hearm , from Proto-West Germanic *harm , from Proto-Germanic *harmaz ( “ harm; shame; pain ” ) . Cognate with Dutch harm ( “ harm ” ) , German Harm ( “ harm ” ) , Swedish harm ( “ anger, indignation, harm ” ) , Icelandic harmur ( “ sorrow, grief ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
harm (countable and uncountable , plural harms )
Physical injury ; hurt ; damage .
No harm came to my possessions.
You can do a lot of harm to someone if you kick them in the balls. Especially if they get revenge and bring out a bazooka and blast your head off.
Emotional or figurative hurt .
Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm .
1918 , W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell , chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp , Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , →OCLC :And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
Detriment ; misfortune .
I wish him no harm .
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
c. 1606–1607 , William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [Act II, scene i]:We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms .
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Collocations
Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, redressable , lasting, material, substantial.
Translations [ edit ]
injury; hurt; damage
Afar: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: skade (af)
Albanian: (please verify ) dëm m
Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: ضَرَرٌ (ar) m ( ḍararun )
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: վնաս (hy) ( vnas )
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: dañu m
Aymara: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: zərər (az)
Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Basque: zauri , kalte (eu)
Belarusian: шко́да f ( škóda )
Bengali: সদমা ( śodoma )
Bikol Central: uragan (bcl)
Breton: droug (br) m
Bulgarian: вреда (bg) f ( vreda ) , пакост (bg) f ( pakost )
Catalan: dany (ca) m
Chamorro: dañu
Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 損害 / 损害 (zh) ( sǔnhài )
Corsican: please add this translation if you can
Czech: poškození (cs) n
Danish: skade (da)
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: schade (nl) m
Esperanto: damaĝo
Estonian: kahju (et)
Ewe: please add this translation if you can
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: skaði
Finnish: vahinko (fi)
French: mal (fr) m , tort (fr) m , dommage (fr) m
Friulian: please add this translation if you can
Galician: dano (gl) m
Georgian: ზიანი ( ziani ) , ზარალი ( zarali ) , ვნება ( vneba )
German: Schaden (de) m
Greek: βλάβη (el) f ( vlávi )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hausa: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: māino , pōpilikia
Hebrew: נזק (he) m ( nézek )
Hindi: (please verify ) नुक़सान m ( nuqsān ) , (please verify ) हानि (hi) f ( hāni )
Hungarian: ártalom (hu)
Icelandic: skaði m
Ido: domajo (io) , nocuro (io)
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: (please verify ) cedera (id)
Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Irish: dochar m , díobháil f , anachain (ga) f , urchóid f
Italian: danno (it) m , male (it) m , ferita (it) f
Japanese: (please verify ) 損害 (ja) ( そんがい, songai )
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: залал (kk) ( zalal ) , зиян (kk) ( ziän ) , зарар ( zarar )
Khmer: (please verify ) អំពើអាក្រក់ ( ʼɑmpəəʼaakrŭək )
Korean: 해 (ko) ( hae )
Latin: noxa f , noxia f
Latvian: bojājums m , ievainojums m , kaitējums m
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Luganda: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: Schued m
Macedonian: штета ( šteta )
Malay: mudarat , keburukan
Malayalam: ഉപദ്രവം (ml) ( upadravaṁ )
Marathi: ईजा ( ījā )
Mirandese: (please verify ) danho m
Occitan: dam (oc) m
Old English: hearm
Old Saxon: (please verify ) harm
Oriya: please add this translation if you can
Ottoman Turkish: ضرر ( zarar ) , زیان ( ziyan ) , مضرت ( mazarrat )
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: آسیب (fa) ( âsib )
Polish: szkoda (pl) f , krzywda (pl) f
Portuguese: dano (pt) m , mal (pt) m
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: (please verify ) pagubă (ro) f , (please verify ) daună (ro) f , (please verify ) prejudiciu (ro) n ; (please verify ) rău (ro) n , (please verify ) nedreptate (ro) f
Russian: вред (ru) m ( vred ) , уще́рб (ru) m ( uščérb ) , поврежде́ние (ru) n ( povreždénije )
Samoan: leaga
Sanskrit: द्रुह् (sa) f ( druh )
Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
Scots: skaith
Scottish Gaelic: (please verify ) aimhleas m , (please verify ) baoghal m , (please verify ) coire m , (please verify ) ciùrradh m , (please verify ) cron m , (please verify ) olc m , (please verify ) milleadh m , (please verify ) dochann m , (please verify ) coire f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: повреда f ; штета f
Roman: povreda (sh) f ; šteta (sh) f
Sicilian: firita f
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: poškodenie n
Spanish: daño (es) m
Tamil: கெடுதல் (ta) ( keṭutal ) , நாசம் (ta) ( nācam ) , நஷ்டம் (ta) ( naṣṭam )
Telugu: (please verify ) హాని (te) ( hāni )
Tocharian B: karep
Turkish: zarar (tr) , hasar (tr) , ziyan (tr) , incinme (tr)
Ukrainian: шко́да (uk) f ( škóda )
Urdu: (please verify ) نقصان m ( nuqsān )
Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
Venetian: sbrégo m
Vietnamese: hại (vi)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: please add this translation if you can
Wolof: please add this translation if you can
Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
Zazaki: zerar n , derb f , ziyan f , ziyan f
Zulu: please add this translation if you can
that which causes injury, damage, or loss
harm (third-person singular simple present harms , present participle harming , simple past and past participle harmed )
To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.
2020 December 16, Yan Ming, “Awakening Moral Conscience”, in Minghui [1] :Will justice and conscience of society not be harmed if people avoid the truth?
Translations [ edit ]
cause damage
Afrikaans: beskadig
Arabic: ضَرَّ ( ḍarra ) أَضَرَّ ( ʔaḍarra )
Egyptian Arabic: ضر ( ḍarr )
Armenian: վնասել (hy) ( vnasel )
Bulgarian: увреждам (bg) ( uvreždam )
Catalan: danyar (ca)
Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 損害 / 损害 (zh) ( sǔnhài )
Danish: skade (da)
Dutch: schaden (nl) , beschadigen (nl)
Esperanto: damaĝi
Faroese: skaða
Finnish: vahingoittaa (fi)
French: nuire à , faire du mal à
Galician: ferir (gl) , facer mal
German: schaden (de)
Alemannic German: schade
Greek: βλάπτω (el) ( vlápto )
Ancient: βλάπτω ( bláptō )
Hebrew: הזיק (he) ( hizík )
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: árt (hu)
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Ido: domajar (io)
Irish: déan dochar do , déan díobháil do
Italian: danneggiare (it) , ferire (it) , far male , nuocere (it)
Japanese: 害する (ja) ( gai-suru ) , そこなう (ja) ( sokonau ) , 痛める (ja) ( ita-meru )
Khmer: បង្ករអន្តរាយ ( bângkârôʼntâréay )
Korean: 해치다 (ko) ( haechida )
Latin: noceō (la) m
Latvian: kaitēt , bojāt
Maore Comorian: uhodza
Maori: whakatūroro ( to a person ) , whakahauā , whakakino
Ngazidja Comorian: udhuru
Piedmontese: neuse
Polish: krzywdzić (pl) , uszkadzać (pl) impf ( mainly for inanimate )
Portuguese: ferir (pt) , fazer mal , afligir (pt) , machucar (pt)
Romanian: vătăma (ro) , strica (ro) , dăuna (ro)
Russian: вреди́ть (ru) impf ( vredítʹ ) , повреди́ть (ru) pf ( povredítʹ ) , навреди́ть (ru) pf ( navredítʹ )
Sanskrit: द्रुह्यति (sa) ( druhyati ) , हिनस्ति (sa) ( hinasti )
Scottish Gaelic: mill , cuir cron air
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: оштетити , повредити / повриједити , шкодити
Roman: oštetiti (sh) , povrediti (sh) / povrijediti (sh) , škoditi (sh)
Slovak: raniť , škodiť
Slovene: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: dañar (es)
Swedish: skada (sv)
Telugu: హాని (te) ( hāni )
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: шко́дити impf ( škódyty ) , нашко́дити pf ( naškódyty ) , завдава́ти шко́ди impf ( zavdaváty škódy ) , завда́ти шко́ди pf ( zavdáty škódy )
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
Derived terms [ edit ]
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Icelandic [ edit ]
harm
indefinite accusative singular of harmur
Pronunciation [ edit ]
harm
h-prothesized form of arm
Middle English [ edit ]
Alternative forms [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
From Old English hearm , from Proto-West Germanic *harm .
harm (plural harms )
harm , injury , ruination
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Old Norse [ edit ]
harm
accusative singular of harmr
Old Saxon [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
From Proto-Germanic *harmaz .
harm m
harm
Descendants [ edit ]
Swedish [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
From Old Swedish harmber , ultimately from Proto-Germanic *harmaz . Cognate with English harm .
harm c
angry indignation (at something considered unjust)
( archaic ) (physical or emotional) harm
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