pain

pain

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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)

  1. (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.
    1. (now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
  2. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
  3. (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
  4. (uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  5. (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)

  1. (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.
  3. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
    It pains me to say that I must let you go.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  5. (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)

  1. (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”, in 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

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Finnish

Noun

pain

  1. inflection of pai:
    1. genitive singular
    2. 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)

  1. bread
  2. piece of bread
  3. food
    • 1830 Juvénal, Les Satires, translated into French verse by Barré de Jallais
  4. bread-and-butter needs, basic sustenance; breadwinner
    • 1830 Juvénal, Les Satires, translated into French verse by Barré de Jallais
  5. (informal) punch (a hit with the fist)
  6. a block (of ice, of salt, of soap …) with the shape and size of bread
  7. (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

  1. 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

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. (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)

  1. 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

  1. 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 (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜁᜈ᜔)

  1. bait (for catching fish, rats, etc.)
  2. decoy
  3. 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

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

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