painkiller

See also: pain killer

English

Alternative forms

• pain killer

Etymology

pain +‎ killer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪnˌkɪlə(ɹ)/

Noun

painkiller (plural painkillers)

1. (pharmacology) A drug that numbs the pain in the body.

Synonyms

• PK (initialism, informal)

Translations

a drug that numbs the pain in the body

• Afrikaans: pynstiller
• Arabic: ضِدَّ الأَلَم‎ m (ḍidda l-ʾalam)
• Armenian: ցավազրկող (cʿavazrkoł)
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: пенкилер (bg) m (penkiler)
• Catalan: analgèsic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 止痛藥 (zh), 止痛药 (zh) (zhǐtòngyào), 鎮痛劑 (zh), 镇痛剂 (zh) (zhèntòngjì)

• Czech: analgetikum (cs) n
• Dutch: pijnstiller (nl) m
• Esperanto: kontraŭdolorilo
• Finnish: kipulääke (fi)
• French: analgésique (fr), antidouleur (fr) m
• Galician: analxésico (gl) m
• German: Schmerzmittel (de) n
• Greek: παυσίπονο (el) n (pafsípono)
• Hebrew: משכך כאבים‎ m (meshakeḥ ke'evim)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: fájdalomcsillapító (hu)

• Irish: pianmhúchán m
• Italian: antidolorifico (it) m, analgesico (it) m
• Japanese: 痛み止め (いたみどめ, itamidome), 鎮静剤 (ちんせいざい, chinseizai)
• Korean: 진통제 (ko) (jintongje)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: वेदनाशामक n (vednāśāmak)
• Polish: środek przeciwbólowy m
• Portuguese: analgésico m
• Russian: анальге́тик (ru) m (analʹgétik), обезбо́ливающее (ru) n (obezbólivajuščeje), болеутоля́ющее n (boleutoljájuščeje)
• Spanish: analgésico (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: smärtlindrare c, smärtstillande (sv) c
• Thai: ยาแก้ปวด (yaa-gɛ̂ɛ-bpùuat)
• Tibetan: ན་ཟུག་འཇགས་སྨན (na zug 'jags sman), ན་ཟུག་འཇགས་ཡག་གི་སྨན (na zug 'jags yag gi sman)
• Turkish: ağrı kesen
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: thuốc giảm đau
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• analgesic

Further reading

• painkiller on Wikipedia.Wikipedia