injury

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “injury”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Alternative forms

• enjury

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman (deprecated template usage) injurie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) iniūria, from (deprecated template usage) in- + (deprecated template usage) iūs, iūris.

Noun

injury (plural injuries)

1. Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.

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)
• Azeri: korlanma, zərər
• Belarusian: рана f (rána), траўма f (tráŭma), пашкоджанне f (paškódžanne)
• Bulgarian: щета (bg) f (šteta)
• Catalan: ferida Template:f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: urážka f, zranění n, úraz (cs) m
• Danish: sår (da) c
• Dutch: verwonding (nl) f
• Esperanto:
• Estonian: vigastus
• Faroese:
• 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: Template:tø
• Hebrew: פְּצִיעָה f
• Hindi: चोट f (coṭ)
• Hungarian: hátrány (hu), sérülés (hu)
• Icelandic: sár (is) n
• Indonesian: ,
• 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: Template:ku-Arab

• Latin: vulnus n, plaga (la) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: pārestība f
• Lithuanian: žala f
• Luhya: Template:tø
• Macedonian: повреда f (póvreda)
• Mongolian: хор (xor)
• Norwegian: skade (no) m
• Old English:
• Old Saxon: Template:tø
• 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 , leònadh , milleadh ,
• 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: , ,
• 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)
• Welsh: , , , , , ,
• West Frisian: wûne Template: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. Template: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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “injury”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.