injury

injury

English

Etymology

From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.dʒə.ɹi/, /ˈɪn.dʒɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/, /ˈɪn.d͡ʒɹi/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)

1. Damage to the body of a living thing.

   The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.

2. Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.
3. The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

   Slander is an injury to the character.

4. (archaic) Injustice.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:injury

Related terms

• injure
• injurious

Translations

wound — see wound

damage or violation

Afrikaans: wond Albanian: lëndim (sq) Arabic: جُرْح‎ (ar) m (jurḥ), إِصَابَة‎ f (ʾiṣāba) Hijazi Arabic: إِصَابَة‎ f (ʾiṣāba), صَقْعَة‎ f (ṣagʿa), تَعْويرة‎ f (taʿwīra) Armenian: վնաս (hy) (vnas), վնասվածք (hy) (vnasvackʿ) Asturian: lesión f, firida (ast) f, mancadura (ast) f Azerbaijani: korlanma, zərər (az), xəsarət (wound), yara (az) (wound), zədə Bashkir: (wound) яра (yara), йәрәхәт (yäräxät) Belarusian: ра́на f (rána), тра́ўма f (tráŭma), пашко́джанне f (paškódžannje) Bengali: আঘাত (bn) (aghat), সদমা (sôdôma), জখম (bn) (zôkhôm) Bulgarian: щета́ (bg) f (štetá), вреда́ (bg) f (vredá), ра́на (bg) f (rána) Burmese: အနာ (my) (a.na) Catalan: ferida (ca) f, lesió (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: (please verify) 傷, (please verify) 伤 (soeng1) Mandarin: 受傷／受伤 (zh) (shòushāng), 負傷／负伤 (zh) (fùshāng) Czech: urážka (cs) f, zranění (cs) n, úraz (cs) m Danish: sår (da) c Dutch: verwonding (nl) f, letsel (nl) n,(1) belediging (nl) f,verongelijking f,schade (nl) f,nadeel (nl) n,onrecht (nl) n,(2) Esperanto: vundo (eo) Estonian: vigastus Faroese: sár Finnish: vamma (fi), loukkaantuminen (fi) French: blessure (fr) f Galician: ferida (gl) f, lesión f Georgian: დაშავება (dašaveba), ზიანი (ziani), ზარალი (zarali), ვნება (vneba) German: Verletzung (de) f, Wunde (de) f, Verwundung (de) f Greek: ζημία (el) f (zimía) Haitian Creole: blesi Hebrew: פְּצִיעָה‎ (he) f (p'tsi'á) Hindi: चोट (hi) f (coṭ), आघात (hi) m (āghāt) Hungarian: sérülés (hu) Icelandic: sár (is) n Indonesian: luka (id), cedera (id) Irish: gortú 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), жарақат (jaraqat) Khmer: របួស (km) (rɔbuəh) Korean: 상해(傷害) (ko) (sanghae), 부상(負傷) (ko) (busang) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: برین‎ (ku) (brîn) Kyrgyz: жаракат (ky) (jarakat) Lao: ແຜ (phǣ), ບາດ (bāt) Latin: vulnus n, plaga (la) f, noxia f Latvian: pārestība f Lithuanian: žala f Luhya: esidonda Macedonian: повреда f (povreda) Malay: kecederaan (ms) Manx: aggair m Maori: wharanga, wharatanga, uruhua Middle English: injurie, noysaunce, hurt Mongolian: Cyrillic: хор (mn) (xor), гэмтэл (mn) (gemtel) Nepali: चोट (coṭ) Norwegian: Bokmål: skade (no) m Old Saxon: wunda f Papiamentu: erida Persian: آسیب‎ (fa) (âsib), جراحت‎ (fa) (jerâhat) Polish: szkoda (pl) f, uraz (pl) m, kontuzja (pl) f Portuguese: ferida (pt) m, lesão (pt) f Romanian: rană (ro) f Russian: (wound) ра́на (ru) f (rána), тра́вма (ru) f (trávma), поврежде́ние (ru) n (povreždénije), ране́ние (ru) n (ranénije) Sanskrit: द्रुह् (sa) f (druh) Scottish Gaelic: ciùrradh m, leònadh m, milleadh m, cron m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̏вреда f, по̏вриједа f, ра̏на f, о̏зледа f, о̏зљеда f Roman: pȍvreda (sh) f, pȍvrijeda f, rȁna (sh) f, ȍzleda f, ȍzljeda (sh) f Slovak: urážka (sk) f Slovene: poškodba (sl) f Spanish: herida (es) f, lesión (es) f, lastimadura (es) f Sranan Tongo: soro Swahili: afa (sw), jiraha (sw), jeraha (sw) Swedish: skada (sv) c Tagalog: kapinsalaan (tl) Tajik: осеб (tg) (oseb), ҷароҳат (jarohat) Tatar: җәрәхәт (tt) (cäräxät) Thai: อันตราย (th) (an-dtà-raai) Tibetan: སྐྱོན (skyon) Turkish: zarar (tr) Turkmen: şikes Ukrainian: пошко́дження n (poškódžennja), ра́на f (rána), тра́вма (uk) f (trávma) Urdu: چوٹ‎ f (coṭ) Uyghur: جاراھەت‎ (jarahet) Uzbek: jarohat (uz) Vietnamese: thương tích (vi), thương tật Welsh: anaf m, anafiad m, anap m or f, cam (cy) m, camwy m, niwed (cy) m, sarhad (cy) m West Frisian: wûne f White Hmong: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: וווּנד‎ f (vund), שאָדן‎ m (shodn) Yoruba: ìpalára Yucatec Maya: loob Zazaki: xesar vinen

See also

• damage
• detriment
• evil
• harm
• hurt
• impairment
• injustice
• loss
• mischief
• wrong

Verb

injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)

1. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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.

Further reading

• injury in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• injury in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

• Ryūjin

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Middle English

Noun

injury

1. Alternative form of injurie