English Online Dictionary. What means pain? What does pain mean?
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”). Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore).
Alternative forms
- paine (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: pān, IPA(key): /peɪn/
- Rhymes: -eɪn
- Homophone: pane
Noun
pain (countable and uncountable, plural pains)
- (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
- (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- (uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
- (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
Synonyms
- (an annoying person or thing): pest
- See also Thesaurus:pain
Antonyms
- pleasure
Hyponyms
- agony
- anguish
- pang
- neuropathic pain
- nociceptive pain
- phantom pain
- psychogenic pain
Derived terms
Related terms
Collocations
Translations
Verb
pain (third-person singular simple present pains, present participle paining, simple past and past participle pained)
- (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- The wound pained him.
- (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.
- (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
- (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English payn (“a kind of pie with a soft crust”), from Old French pain (“bread”).
Noun
pain (plural pains)
- (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
- gammon pain; Spanish pain
References
- “pain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “pain”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- pain at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- APNI, NIPA, PANI, nipa, pian, pina, piña
Bilbil
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.
Noun
pain
- woman
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Finnish
Noun
pain
- inflection of pai:
- genitive singular
- instructive plural
Anagrams
- apin, pani, pian
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French pain, from Old French pain, from Latin pānem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛ̃/
- Homophones: pains, peins, peint, peints, pin, pins
Noun
pain m (plural pains)
- bread
- piece of bread
- food
- 1830 Juvénal, Les Satires, translated into French verse by Barré de Jallais
- 1830 Juvénal, Les Satires, translated into French verse by Barré de Jallais
- bread-and-butter needs, basic sustenance; breadwinner
- 1830 Juvénal, Les Satires, translated into French verse by Barré de Jallais
- Ce danseur, déployant une jambe soigneuse / À tenir l’équilibre, et la corde douteuse, / Trouve dans son talent des habits et du pain, / Et son art lui subjugue et le froid et la faim : […]
- 1830 Juvénal, Les Satires, translated into French verse by Barré de Jallais
- (informal) punch (a hit with the fist)
- a block (of ice, of salt, of soap …) with the shape and size of bread
- (slang) (music) mistake during a performance (false note, forgot an intro, wrong solo, …)
Derived terms
Related terms
- panier
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: pen
- Karipúna Creole French: djipẽ
- → Farefare: pãanɛ
- ⇒ Khmer: នំប៉័ង (num pang)
- → Xârâcùù: pêê
Further reading
- “pain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- pina
Gedaged
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.
Noun
pain
- woman
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
- ABVD
- Gedaged Bible translation, Genesis 1:27: Tamol pain mai inaulak.
Matukar
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.
Noun
pain
- woman
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Middle French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French pain, from Latin pānis, pānem.
Noun
pain m (plural pains)
- bread
Descendants
- French: pain (see there for further descendants)
References
- pain on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Norman
Alternative forms
- pôin (Guernsey)
Etymology
From Old French pain.
Pronunciation
Noun
pain m (plural pains)
- (Jersey) bread
Derived terms
- gângne-pain (“breadwinner”)
- pain d'êpice (“gingerbread”)
- p'tit pain (“roll”)
Old French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pānis, pānem.
Noun
pain m (oblique plural painz, nominative singular painz, nominative plural pain)
- bread
Descendants
- Middle French: pain
- French: pain (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: pain, pôin
- Walloon: pwin, pan
- → Middle English: payn, pain, paine, payn, pein
- English: pain (obsolete)
Ronji
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.
Noun
pain
- woman
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *paən (cf. Bikol Central paon).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pa‧in
- IPA(key): /ˈpaʔin/, [ˈpa.ʔɪn]
Noun
pain
- bait (for catching fish, rats, etc.)
- decoy
- nest egg
Derived terms
- ipain
Further reading
- “pain”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
Wab
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.
Noun
pain
- woman
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)