English Pronunciation IPA (key ) : /ˈsʌfəɹɪŋ/ Hyphenation: suf‧fer‧ing Adjective suffering
Experiencing pain .Template:jump Synonyms Translations Noun suffering (countable and uncountable plural sufferings
The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress .
2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian [1] Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.
Translations condition
Albanian: vuajtje (sq) f
Arabic: مُعَانَاة f ( muʕānāh )
Armenian: տառապանք (hy) ( taṙapankʻ ) , չարչարանք (hy) ( čʻarčʻarankʻ )
Azerbaijani: əzab (az)
Belarusian: цярпе́нне n ( cjarpjénnje ) , паку́та f ( pakúta ) , му́ка f ( múka )
Bengali: পীড়া ( piṛa ) , সহন ( śohon )
Bulgarian: страда́ние (bg) n ( stradánie ) , мъ̀ка (bg) f ( mǎ̀ka )
Burmese: ဒုက္ခ (my) ( dukhka. )
Catalan: patiment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 苦痛 (zh) ( kǔtòng )
Czech: utrpení (cs) n muka (cs) f
Danish: lidelse (da) c
Dutch: lijden (nl) n
Erzya: тарво ( tarvo )
Esperanto: sufero
Estonian: kannatus (et)
Ewe: fukpekpe
Finnish: kärsimys (fi)
French: souffrance (fr) f Passion (fr) f
Galician: sufrimento (gl) m
Georgian: ტანჯვა ( ṭanǯva ) , წამება ( c̣ameba ) , წვალება ( c̣valeba )
German: Leiden (de) n
Greek: βάσανο (el) n ( vásano )
Ancient: κόπος m ( kópos ) , πάθημα n ( páthēma )
Hebrew: סֵבֶל (he) m ( sével ) , יִסּוּרִים ( yisurim )
Hindi: दुःख (hi) m ( duḥkh ) , पीड़ा (hi) m ( pīṛā )
Hungarian: szenvedés (hu)
Icelandic: þjáning (is) f
Italian: sofferenza (it) f
Japanese: 苦痛 (ja) ( くつう, kutsū ) , 苦しみ (ja) ( くるしみ, kurushimi )
Kazakh: азап ( azap )
Khmer: កិលេស (km) ( keleeh ) , ទុក្ខ (km) ( tuk )
Korean: 고통 (ko) ( gotong ) , 괴로움 (ko) ( goeroum )
Kyrgyz: азап (ky) ( azap )
Lao: ທຸກ ( thuk ) , ທຸກທໍລະມານ ( thuk thǭ la mān )
Latvian: ciešanas m
Lithuanian: kentėjimas m kančia f
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Macedonian: страдање n ( stradanje ) , мака f ( maka )
Malay: penderitaan azab
Maori: whakapāwera
Mongolian: зовлон (mn) ( zovlon )
Nepali: दुख ( dukh )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lidelse (no) m
Nynorsk: liding f
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Pali: dukkha n
Pashto: عذاب (ps) m ( azãb )
Persian: عذاب (fa) ( 'azâb )
Polish: cierpienie (pl) , męka (pl) f
Portuguese: sofrimento (pt)
Romanian: suferință (ro) f păs (ro)
Russian: страда́ние (ru) n ( stradánije ) , му́ка (ru) f ( múka )
Sanskrit: दुःख (sa) ( duḥkha )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па̀тња f му̏ка f
Roman: pàtnja (sh) f mȕka (sh) f
Slovak: utrpenie n muka f
Slovene: trpljenje (sl) n muka f
Spanish: sufrimiento (es) m
Swedish: lidande (sv) c
Tajik: азоб (tg) ( azob )
Tamil: வேத்னைப்படுதல் ( vētṉaippaṭutal ) , வேதனை (ta) ( vētaṉai )
Tatar: азап (tt) ( azap )
Thai: ความทรมาน (th) ( kwaam-tɔɔ-rá-maan ) , ทุกข์ (th) ( túk )
Tibetan: སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱད། ( sdug bsngal brgyad )
Turkish: azap (tr)
Turkmen: azap (tk)
Ukrainian: стражда́ння n ( straždánnja ) , му́ка f ( múka ) , терпі́ння n ( terpínnja )
Urdu: دکھ m ( dukh ) , عذاب ( 'azāb )
Uyghur: ئازاب ( azab )
Uzbek: azob (uz)
Vietnamese: khổ (vi)
Welsh: dioddefaint (cy) m
Yiddish: יסורים pl ( yisurem )
Verb suffering
present participle of suffer Related terms