heartburn

See also: heart-burn

English

Alternative forms

• heart-burn

Etymology

From Middle English hertbryne, herte-bren (“lust", also "heartburn”, literally “heart burn”), equivalent to heart +‎ burn. Compare also Middle English herte-brennyng (“anger, bitterness, heartburn”, literally “burning of/in the heart, heart-burning”). Compare also Ancient Greek καρδιαλγία (kardialgía), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). From being a burning sensation near the location of the heart in the chest.

Noun

heartburn (countable and uncountable, plural heartburns)

1. (pathology) A burning pain in the chest that is caused by stomach acid entering the gullet.

Synonyms

• acid reflux
• cardialgia
• gastroesophageal reflux
• pyrosis

Coordinate terms

• cardiodynia
• gastric reflux
• GERD
• GORD
• indigestion
• water brash

Translations

pain caused by stomach acid

• Amharic: ቃር (ḳar)
• Arabic: حرقة في المعدة‎ (haraqat fi almu3add)
• Armenian: այրոց (hy) (ayrocʿ), այրուցք (hy) (ayrucʿkʿ)
• Basque: bihotzerre
• Bulgarian: стомашни киселини f pl (stomašni kiselini)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燒心 (zh), 烧心 (zh) (shāoxīn), 胃灼熱 (zh), 胃灼热 (zh) (wèizhuórè)

• Czech: pálení žáhy n
• Dutch: maagzuur (nl)
• Estonian: kõrvetised pl
• Finnish: närästys (fi)
• French: brûlures d'estomac (fr) f pl
• Galician: ardentía (gl) f
• Georgian: გულისწვა (gulisc̣va), გულძმარვა (ka) (gulʒmarva)
• German: Sodbrennen (de) n
• Greek: καούρα (el) f (kaoúra)
• Hungarian: gyomorégés (hu)
• Icelandic: brjóstsviði (is) m
• Irish: daigh chroí f, loscadh daighe m, dó croí m

• Italian: bruciore di stomaco
• Japanese: 胸焼け (むねやけ, muneyake)
• Korean: 속 쓰림 (sok sseurim)
• Kurdish: dilekizê (ku) f
• Maori: taratarawai, pohongawhā
• Mongolian: шар (mn) (šar)
• Navajo: biyiʼ hodilid
• Norwegian: halsbrann m
• Polish: zgaga (pl) f, pieczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: azia (pt) f
• Russian: изжо́га (ru) f (izžóga), пиро́зис m (pirózis)
• Scots: water brash
• Scottish Gaelic: losgadh-bràghad m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гору̀шица f

  Roman: gorùšica (sh) f

• Spanish: rescoldera f, ardor de estómago m, acidez (es) f, pirosis f
• Swedish: halsbränna (sv) c
• Vilamovian: kwȫł f

Further reading

• heartburn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia