From Middle English hertbryne, herte-bren (“lust", also "heartburn”, literally “heart burn”), equivalent to heart + burn. Compare also Middle English herte-brennyng (“anger, bitterness, heartburn”, literally “burning of/in the heart, heart-burning”). Compare also Ancient Greek καρδιαλγία (kardialgía), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). From being a burning sensation near the location of the heart in the chest.
heartburn (countable and uncountable, plural heartburns)
- (pathology) A burning pain in the chest that is caused by stomach acid entering the gullet.
- Synonyms: acid reflux, gastric reflux, gastroesophageal reflux, pyrosis, water brash, (archaic) cardialgia, cardialgy
- Hypernym: indigestion
- Coordinate term: cardiodynia
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (figuratively) Synonym of annoyance (“state of being annoyed”)
2001, J. Michael Willard, The Accidental Headline, →ISBN, page 80:”There’s some heartburn about the fact the message is getting stepped on,” said Mark McKinnon, Bush’s campaign media strategist.
2003, Robyn Lim, The Geopolitics of East Asia: The Search for Equilibrium, →ISBN, page 92:America’s policy of containing both the Soviet Union and its Chinese ally did cause some heartburn in Tokyo.
2013, Kenneth Conboy, The Cambodian Wars, →ISBN, page 268:Back in Thailand, meantime, the CIA felt relatively little heartburn over the congressional rebuff.
pain caused by stomach acid
- Amharic: ቃር (ḳar)
- Arabic: حُرْقَة الْمَعِدَة (ḥurqa(t) al-maʕida)
- Hijazi Arabic: حَرَقان m (ḥaragān), حرْقَة m (ḥarga)
- Armenian: այրոց (hy) (ayrocʻ), այրուցք (hy) (ayrucʻkʻ)
- Asturian: ardentía f, ardidura f, ardura f, quemura f
- Basque: bihotzerre
- Belarusian: пякотка f (pjakótka)
- Bengali: বুকজ্বালা (bukojjala)
- Bulgarian: стомашни киселини f pl (stomašni kiselini)
- Catalan: pirosi, cremor (ca), coragre m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 燒心 / 烧心 (zh) (shāoxīn), 胃灼熱 / 胃灼热 (zh) (wèizhuórè)
- Czech: pálení žáhy n
- Dutch: maagzuur (nl)
- Esperanto: pirozo
- Estonian: kõrvetised pl
- Finnish: närästys (fi)
- French: brûlures d’estomac (fr) f pl
- Galician: ardentía (gl) f, acedía (gl) f
- Georgian: გულისწვა (gulisc̣va), გულძმარვა (ka) (gulʒmarva)
- German: Sodbrennen (de) n
- Greek: καούρα (el) f (kaoúra)
- Ancient: ὀξυρεγμία f (oxuregmía)
- Hebrew: צרבת f
- Hungarian: gyomorégés (hu)
- Icelandic: brjóstsviði (is) m
- Irish: daigh chroí f, loscadh daighe m, dó croí m
- Italian: bruciore di stomaco
- Japanese: 胸焼け (むねやけ, muneyake)
- Korean: 속 쓰림 (sok sseurim)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: dilekizê (ku) f
- Macedonian: жиго́вина f (žigóvina)
- Maori: taratarawai, pohongawhā, tokopā, tokopaha
- Mokilese: johiahia
- Mongolian: шар (mn) (šar)
- Nandi: kalut
- Navajo: biyiʼ hodilid
- Norwegian: halsbrann m
- Old Czech: zháha f
- Old Slovak: záha f
- Oromo: singiggoo
- Persian: سوزش سر دل
- Plautdietsch: Soodbrennen n, Brennendesood m
- Polish: zgaga (pl) f, pieczenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: azia (pt) f
- Russian: изжо́га (ru) f (izžóga), пиро́зис m (pirózis)
- Scots: water brash
- Scottish Gaelic: losgadh-bràghad m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гору̀шица f
- Roman: gorùšica (sh) f
- Slovak: záha f
- Slovene: zgaga f
- Spanish: rescoldera f (monosemic), ardentilla f (monosemic), agriera (es) f (monosemic), ardor estomacal m, acidez estomacal f, agruras (es) f pl, pirosis f (technical), cardialgia (es) f (technical), hiperclorhidria (es) f (technical), agrura (es) f, hervores m pl, jervores m pl (Americanism), acedía (es) f
- Swahili: kiungulia
- Swedish: halsbränna (sv) c
- Tajik: зардаҷӯш (zardajüš)
- Tamil: நெஞ்செரிவு (neñcerivu)
- Turkish: mide yanması
- Ukrainian: печія f (pečija)
- Vietnamese: ợ nóng
- Vilamovian: kwȫł f
- Welsh: dŵr poeth m, llosg cylla m
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