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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”).
Pronunciation
Noun
injury (plural injuries)
- damage to the body of a human or animal
- The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
- violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests
- Slander is an injury to the character.
- (archaic) injustice
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Translations
damage or violation
- Afrikaans: wond (af)
- Albanian: lëndim (sq)
- Arabic: جرح (ar) (jurḥ) m, إصابة (ar) (ʾiṣāba) f
- Armenian: վնաս (hy) (vnas)
- Azeri: korlanma (az), zərər (az)
- Belarusian: рана (be) (rána) f, траўма (be) (tráŭma) f, пашкоджанне (be) (paškódžanne) f
- Bulgarian: щета (bg) (šteta) f
- Catalan: ferida f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 受傷 (cmn), 受伤 (cmn) (shòushāng), 負傷 (cmn), 负伤 (cmn) (fùshāng)
- Czech: urážka (cs) f, zranění (cs) n, úraz (cs) m
- Danish: sår (da) c
- Dutch: verwonding (nl) f
- Esperanto: vundo (eo)
- Estonian: vigastus (et)
- Faroese: sár (fo)
- Finnish: vamma (fi), loukkaantuminen (fi)
- French: blessure (fr) f
- Georgian: დაშავება (ka) (dašaveba)
- German: Verletzung (de) f, Wunde (de) f, Verwundung (de) f
- Greek: ζημία (el) (zimía) f
- Haitian Creole: blesi
- Hebrew: פְּצִיעָה (he) f
- Hindi: चोट (hi) (coṭ) f
- Hungarian: hátrány (hu), sérülés (hu)
- Icelandic: sár (is) n
- Indonesian: luka (id), cedera (id)
- Irish: gortú (ga) 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)
- Korean: 상해 (ko) (sanghae), 부상 (ko) (busang) (負傷 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: برین
- Latin: vulnus (la) n, plaga (la) f
- Latvian: pārestība (lv) f
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- Lithuanian: žala (lt) f
- Luhya: esidonda
- Macedonian: повреда (mk) (póvreda) f
- Malay: kecederaan (ms)
- Mongolian: хор (mn) (hor)
- Norwegian: skade (no) m
- Old English: wund (ang) 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) (rána) f, травма (ru) (trávma) f, повреждение (ru) (povreždénije) n, ранение (ru) (ranénije) n
- Scottish Gaelic: ciùrradh m, leònadh m, milleadh m, cron (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: повреда (sh) f, поврједа (sh) f, рана (sh) f, озледа (sh) f, озљеда (sh) f
- Roman: povreda (sh) f, povrjeda (sh) f, rana (sh) f, ozleda (sh) f, ozljeda (sh) f
- Slovak: urážka (sk) 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 (tl)
- Thai: อันตราย (th) (andtraai)
- Turkish: zarar (tr)
- Ukrainian: пошкодження (uk) (poškódžennja) n, рана (uk) (rána) f, травма (uk) (trávma) f
- Urdu: چوٹ (ur) (coṭ) f
- Vietnamese: sự làm hại (vi), bị thương (vi)
- Welsh: anaf (cy) m, anafiad (cy) m, anap (cy) m and f, cam (cy) m, camwy (cy) m, niwed (cy) m, sarhad (cy) m
- West Frisian: wûne f
- Yiddish: וווּנד (yi) (vund) f, שאָדן (yi) (shodn) m
- Yucatec: loob
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See also
Verb
injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)
- (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.
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