injury

English

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Alternative forms

• enjury

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪndʒəɹi/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

injury (plural injuries)

1. damage to the body of a human or animal

   The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.

2. violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests

   Slander is an injury to the character.

3. (archaic) injustice

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:injury

Related terms

• injure
• injurious

Translations

damage or violation

• Afrikaans: wond
• Albanian: lëndim
• Arabic: جرح (ar) m (jurḥ), إصابة f (ʾiṣāba)
• Armenian: վնաս (vnas)
• Asturian: lesión m, firida f, mancadura f
• Azeri: korlanma, zərər
• Bashkir: (wound) яра (yara), йәрәхәт (yäräxät)
• Belarusian: рана f (rána), траўма f (tráŭma), пашкоджанне f (paškódžanne)
• Bulgarian: щета (bg) f (šteta)
• Catalan: ferida (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: urážka (cs) f, zranění n, úraz (cs) m
• Danish: sår (da) c
• Dutch: verwonding (nl) f
• Esperanto: vundo (eo)
• Estonian: vigastus
• Faroese: sár
• Finnish: vamma (fi), loukkaantuminen (fi)
• French: blessure (fr) f
• Georgian: დაშავება (dašaveba)
• German: Verletzung (de) f, Wunde (de) f, Verwundung (de) f
• Greek: ζημία (el) f (zimía)
• Haitian Creole: blesi
• Hebrew: פְּצִיעָה f
• Hindi: चोट 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 f
• Japanese: 傷害 (ja) (しょうがい, shōgai), 負傷 (ふしょう, fushō)
• Kazakh: жара (jara)
• Korean: 상해 (sanghae), 부상 (ko) (busang) (負傷 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: برین (ku)

• Latin: vulnus n, plaga (la) f

• Latvian: pārestība f
• Lithuanian: žala f
• Luhya: esidonda
• Macedonian: повреда f (póvreda)
• Malay: kecederaan
• Maori: wharanga, wharatanga
• Mongolian: хор (hor)
• 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) рана (ru) f (rána), травма (ru) f (trávma), повреждение (ru) n (povreždénije), ранение (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 f, povrjeda f, rana f, ozleda f, ozljeda f

• Slovak: urážka f
• Slovene: poškodba (sl) f
• Spanish: herida (es) f, lesión (es) f
• Sranan: soro
• Swahili: afa (sw), jiraha (sw), jeraha (sw)
• Swedish: skada (sv) c
• Tagalog: kapinsalaan
• Thai: อันตราย (th) (andtraai)
• Turkish: zarar (tr)
• Ukrainian: пошкодження n (poškódžennja), рана f (rána), травма (uk) f (trávma)
• Urdu: چوٹ f (coṭ)
• Vietnamese: sự làm hại (vi), bị thương (vi)
• Welsh: anaf m, anafiad m, anap m, f, cam (cy) m, camwy m, niwed m, sarhad (cy) m
• West Frisian: wûne f
• Yiddish: וווּנד f (vund), שאָדן m (shodn)
• Yucatec: loob

See also

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

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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.

External links

• injury in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• injury in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911