injury

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.dʒə.ɹi/, /ˈɪn.dʒɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.dʒə.ɹi/, /ˈɪn.dʒɹi/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)

1. Damage to the body of a human or animal.

   The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.

2. The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

   Slander is an injury to the character.

3. (archaic) Injustice.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:injury

Related terms

• injure
• injurious

Translations

wound — see wound

damage or violation

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

  Hijazi Arabic: إِصَابَة‎ f (ʾiṣāba), صَقْعَة‎ f (ṣagʿa), تَعْويرة‎ f (taʿwīra)

• Armenian: վնաս (hy) (vnas), վնասվածք (hy) (vnasvackʿ)
• Asturian: lesión f, firida f, mancadura f
• Azerbaijani: korlanma, zərər (az)
• Bashkir: (wound) яра (yara), йәрәхәт (yäräxät)
• Belarusian: ра́на f (rána), тра́ўма f (tráŭma), пашко́джанне f (paškódžannje)
• Bulgarian: щета (bg) f (šteta), вреда (bg) f (vreda)
• Catalan: ferida (ca) f, injúria (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 受傷, ^{(please verify)} 受伤 (zh) (shòushāng), ^{(please verify)} 負傷 (zh), ^{(please verify)} 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
• 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
• Hindi: चोट (hi) f (coṭ)
• 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)
• Khmer: របួស (km) (rɔbuəh)
• Korean: 상해 (ko) (sanghae), 부상 (ko) (busang) (負傷 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: برین‎ (ku) (brîn)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: vulnus n, plaga (la) f
• Latvian: pārestība f
• Lithuanian: žala f
• Luhya: esidonda
• Macedonian: по́вреда f (póvreda)
• Malay: kecederaan
• Manx: aggair m
• Maori: wharanga, wharatanga
• Mongolian: хор (mn) (hor)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: skade (no) m
• Old English: wund f
• Old Saxon: wunda f
• Papiamentu: erida
• Persian: آسیب‎ (fa) (âsib)
• Polish: szkoda (pl) f, uraz (pl) m, kontuzja (pl) f
• Portuguese: dano (pt) m
• Romanian: rană (ro) f
• Russian: (wound) ра́на (ru) f (rána), тра́вма (ru) f (trávma), поврежде́ние (ru) n (povreždénije), ране́ние (ru) n (ranénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: ciùrradh m, leònadh m, milleadh m, cron m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: повреда f, поврједа f, рана f, озледа f, озљеда f

  Roman: povreda (sh) f, povrjeda f, rana (sh) f, ozleda f, ozljeda (sh) f

• Slovak: urážka (sk) f
• Slovene: poškodba (sl) f
• Spanish: herida (es) f, lesión (es) f, lastimadura f
• Sranan Tongo: soro
• Swahili: afa (sw), jiraha (sw), jeraha (sw)
• Swedish: skada (sv) c
• Tagalog: kapinsalaan (tl)
• Thai: อันตราย (th) (an-dtà-raai)
• Tibetan: སྐྱོན (skyon)
• Turkish: zarar (tr)
• Ukrainian: пошко́дження n (poškódžennja), ра́на f (rána), тра́вма (uk) f (trávma)
• Urdu: چوٹ‎ f (coṭ)
• Vietnamese: sự làm hại (vi), bị thương (vi)
• 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)
• Yucatec Maya: loob

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, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• injury in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• Ryūjin

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Middle English

Noun

injury

1. Alternative form of injurie