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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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.

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

• add insult to injury
• heap insult on injury
• injury current
• injury potential
• injury time
• insult to injury
• needlestick injury
• personal injury
• pressure injury
• psychological injury
• repetitive strain injury
• self-injury
• traumatic brain 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) (vnasvackʿ)
• Asturian: lesión f, firida (ast) f, mancadura (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: korlanma, zərər (az), xəsarət (wound), yara (az) (wound), zədə
• Bashkir: (wound) яра (yara), йәрәхәт (yäräxät)
• Belarusian: ра́на f (rána), тра́ўма f (tráŭma), 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 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)
• Haitian Creole: blesi
• Hebrew: פְּצִיעָה‎ (he) f (p'tsi'á)
• Hindi: चोट (hi) f (coṭ), आघात (hi) m (āghāt)
• Hungarian: sérülés (hu)
• Icelandic: sár (is) n
• Indonesian: luka (id), cedera (id)
• 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 (kk) (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 f (povreda), рана 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
• 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. (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.
• “injury”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ryūjin

Middle English

Noun

injury

1. Alternative form of injurie