injury

English

Etymology

From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/, /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ.i/, /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈɪɲdʒʊri/
• Hyphenation: in‧ju‧ry

Noun

injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)

1. Damage to the body of a living thing.

   The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.

   He got a shoulder injury in the nets three days before the match.

   • 2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.

   • 2022 August 10, Melanie Radzicki McManus, “How to avoid soft tissue injuries, according to experts”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Soft tissue injuries are the bane of any physically active person. They are the most common injuries in sport, can be difficult to heal and often reoccur, according to Sports Medicine Australia.

2. Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.
3. The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

   Slander is an injury to the character.

4. (archaic) Injustice.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:injury

Derived terms

• acute kidney injury
• add insult to injury
• add salt to injury
• cryoinjury
• heap insult on injury
• injury current
• injury potential
• injury-prone
• injury time
• insult to injury
• microinjury
• moral injury
• needlestick injury
• noninjury
• personal injury
• postinjury
• preinjury
• pressure injury
• psychological injury
• reinjury
• repetitive strain injury
• self-injury
• traumatic brain injury
• vaccine injury

Related terms

• injure
• injurious

Translations

wound — see wound

damage or violation

• Afrikaans: wond
• Albanian: lëndim (sq)
• Arabic: جُرْح (ar) m (jurḥ), إِصَابَة f (ʔiṣāba)

  Hijazi Arabic: إِصَابَة f (ʔiṣāba), صَقْعَة f (ṣagʕa), تَعْويرة f (taʕwīra)

• Armenian: վնաս (hy) (vnas), վնասվածք (hy) (vnasvackʻ)
• Asturian: lesión f, firida (ast) f, mancadura (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: korlanma, zərər (az), xəsarət (wound), yara (az) (wound), zədə
• Bashkir: (wound) яра (yara), йәрәхәт (yərəxət)
• Belarusian: ра́на f (rána), тра́ўма f (tráwma), пашко́джанне f (paškódžannje)
• Bengali: আঘাত (bn) (aghat), সদমা (śodoma), জখম (bn) (jokhom)
• Bulgarian: щета́ (bg) f (štetá), вреда́ (bg) f (vredá), ра́на (bg) f (rána)
• Burmese: အနာ (my) (a.na)
• Catalan: ferida (ca) f, lesió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: ^{(please verify)} 傷 / 伤 (soeng¹)

  Mandarin: 受傷 / 受伤 (zh) (shòushāng), 負傷 / 负伤 (zh) (fùshāng)

• Czech: urážka (cs) f, zranění (cs) n, úraz (cs) m
• Danish: sår (da) c
• Dutch: verwonding (nl) f, letsel (nl) n,(1) belediging (nl) f, verongelijking f, schade (nl) f, nadeel (nl) n, onrecht (nl) n,(2)
• Esperanto: vundo (eo)
• Estonian: vigastus
• Faroese: sár
• Finnish: vamma (fi), loukkaantuminen (fi)
• French: blessure (fr) f
• Galician: ferida (gl) f, lesión (gl) f
• Georgian: დაშავება (dašaveba), ზიანი (ziani), ზარალი (zarali), ვნება (vneba)
• German: Verletzung (de) f, Wunde (de) f, Verwundung (de) f
• Greek: ζημία (el) f (zimía), τραυματισμός (el) m (travmatismós)
• Haitian Creole: blesi
• Hebrew: פְּצִיעָה (he) f (p'tsi'á), חַבָּלָה f (ẖabbalá)
• Hindi: चोट (hi) f (coṭ), आघात (hi) m (āghāt)
• Hungarian: sérülés (hu)
• Icelandic: sár (is) n
• Indonesian: luka (id), cedera (id)
• Ingrian: pahapäivä
• Irish: gortú m
• Italian: ferita (it) f, danno (it) m, lesione (it) f
• Japanese: 傷害 (ja) (しょうがい, shōgai), 負傷 (ja) (ふしょう, fushō)
• Kazakh: жара (jara), жарақат (jaraqat)
• Khmer: របួស (km) (rɔbuəh)
• Korean: 상해(傷害) (ko) (sanghae), 부상(負傷) (ko) (busang)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: برین (brîn)

• Kyrgyz: жаракат (ky) (jarakat)
• Lao: ແຜ (phǣ), ບາດ (bāt)
• Latin: vulnus n, plaga (la) f, noxia f
• Latvian: pārestība f
• Lithuanian: žala f
• Luhya: esidonda
• Macedonian: повреда (mk) f (povreda), рана (mk) f (rana)
• Malay: kecederaan (ms)
• Manx: aggair m
• Maori: wharanga, wharatanga, uruhua
• Middle English: injurie, noysaunce, hurt
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хор (mn) (xor), гэмтэл (mn) (gemtel)

• Nepali: चोट (coṭ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skade (no) m

• Old Saxon: wunda f
• Ottoman Turkish: ضرر (zarar), زیان (ziyan), مضرت (mazarrat)
• Papiamentu: erida
• Persian: آسیب (fa) (âsib), جراحت (fa) (jerâhat)
• Polish: szkoda (pl) f, uraz (pl) m, kontuzja (pl) f
• Portuguese: ferida (pt) m, lesão (pt) f
• Romanian: rană (ro) f
• Russian: (wound) ра́на (ru) f (rána), тра́вма (ru) f (trávma), поврежде́ние (ru) n (povreždénije), ране́ние (ru) n (ranénije)
• Sanskrit: द्रुह् (sa) f (druh)
• Scottish Gaelic: ciùrradh m, leònadh m, milleadh m, cron m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏вреда f, по̏вриједа f, ра̏на f, о̏зледа f, о̏зљеда f

  Roman: pȍvreda (sh) f, pȍvrijeda f, rȁna (sh) f, ȍzleda f, ȍzljeda (sh) f

• Slovak: urážka (sk) f
• Slovene: poškodba (sl) f
• Spanish: herida (es) f, lesión (es) f, lastimadura (es) f, lisiadura f
• Sranan Tongo: soro
• Swahili: afa (sw), jiraha (sw), jeraha (sw)
• Swedish: skada (sv) c
• Tagalog: kapinsalaan (tl)
• Tajik: осеб (tg) (oseb), ҷароҳат (jarohat)
• Tarifit: ayezzim m
• Tatar: җәрәхәт (tt) (cäräxät)
• Thai: อันตราย (th) (an-dtà-raai)
• Tibetan: སྐྱོན (skyon)
• Turkish: zarar (tr)
• Turkmen: şikes
• Ukrainian: пошко́дження n (poškódžennja), ра́на f (rána), тра́вма (uk) f (trávma)
• Urdu: چوٹ f (coṭ)
• Uyghur: جاراھەت (jarahet)
• Uzbek: jarohat (uz)
• Vietnamese: thương tích (vi), thương tật
• Welsh: anaf m, anafiad m, anap m or f, cam (cy) m, camwy m, niwed (cy) m, sarhad (cy) m
• West Frisian: wûne f
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: וווּנד f (vund), שאָדן m (shodn)
• Yoruba: ìpalára
• Yucatec Maya: loob
• Zazaki: xesar vinen

See also

• damage
• detriment
• evil
• harm
• hurt
• impairment
• injustice
• loss
• mischief
• wrong

Verb

injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     II.12:

     The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.

Further reading

• “injury”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “injury”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ryūjin

Middle English

Noun

injury

1. alternative form of injurie