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English

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Etymology 1

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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"), from Proto-Hellenic *kwoinā́ , from Proto-Indo-European *kwoynéh2 ("payment") (whence also Proto-Slavic *cěnà ("price")).

Doublet of peine . 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 ).

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Noun

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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.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pain
    Antonyms: pleasure ; see also Thesaurus:pleasure
    The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
    I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
    1. (now usually in the plural ) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
      • 1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, "The Physiologic Position for Delivery", in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 99:
        When the pains are every five minutes and quite strong or the cervix is five cm. dilated along with regular and strong pains, the mother is given a block anesthesia of 1 cc. of 1:200 nupercaine, 1 cc. of 10 per cent dextrose with .05 cc. of 1:1000 adrenalin.
  2. (uncountable ) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
    Synonyms: anguish ; see also Thesaurus:distress
    In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
    The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
  3. (countable , from pain in the neck ) An annoying person or thing.
    Synonyms: pest ; see also Thesaurus:nuisance
    Your mother is a right pain.
    • 2024 April 17, "Rural railways: do they deliver?", in RAIL, number 1007, page 58:
      Today is match day, Grimsby Town are at home, and the ground is walking distance from New Clee station. So, visiting football supporters coming by train have to change at Grimsby Town [station]. That's a real pain.
  4. (uncountable , dated ) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
    You may not leave this room on pain of death.
    • 1629, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching a Holy War:
      We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
    • 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: [...], London: [...] Jo. Hindmarsh, [...], →OCLC, Act IV, page 105:
      Seb[astian]. [...] [M]y duty, then, / To interpose; on pain of my displeasure, / Betwixt your Swords[.] / Dor[ax]. On pain of Infamy / He should have disobey'd.
  5. (chiefly in the plural ) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:work
    • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism , volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 483:
      The transition to N.E.P. was due to the catastrophic failure of this policy-a failure predicted by the Mensheviks and S.R.s, who for their pains had been denounced, imprisoned, and murdered as henchmen of the White Guards.
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Adjectives often used with "pain"
  • mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.
Translations
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ache or bodily suffering
suffering or anguish, especially mental
annoying person or thing
suffering as punishment
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Verb

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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.
    Synonyms: afflict , hurt ; see also Thesaurus:hurt
    The wound pained him.
  2. (transitive ) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
    Synonyms: afflict , torment ; see also Thesaurus:vex
    It pains me to say that I must let you go.
  3. (transitive , obsolete ) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  4. (intransitive , dated ) To hurt; to feel painful.
  5. (intransitive , India ) To feel pain; to hurt.
    Synonyms: ache , suffer ; see also Thesaurus:suffer
    Please help me: I am paining hard.
    • 2001, Sarah Caldwell, quoting C. Choondal, "Waves of Beauty, Rivers of Blood: Constructing the Goddess in Kerala", in Tracy Pintchman, editor, Seeking Mahādevī: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, page 104:
      Oh my head is aching, oh Lord Damodara [Visnu], give me "kazhi". The neck is paining, oh Lord Kamadeva give me relief. My chest is paining, oh Lord Madhava, give me relief.
    • 2009, Nithyananda Paramahamsa, Bliss Is the Goal and the Path, page 124:
      A lady visited the doctor, a general physician and complained of a lot of pain.
      The doctor asked her where she experienced pain.
      The lady touched her right knee and said, 'It is paining here doctor.'
      Then she touched her stomach and said, 'It is paining here too doctor.'
Translations
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to hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish
to render uneasy in mind, to grieve
to inflict suffering upon as a penalty

Etymology 2

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    From Middle English payn ("a kind of pie with a soft crust"), from Old French pain ("bread").

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    pain (plural pains )

    1. (obsolete , cooking ) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
      gammon pain; Spanish pain

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    Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

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    Noun

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    pain (plural pain dem , quantified pain)

    1. pineapple
    2. pine

    Bilbil

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Oceanic *papine , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi , from Proto-Austronesian *bahi .

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    pain

    1. woman

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    • Ross, Malcolm (1988), Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (Pacific Linguistics; C-98)‎[1] , Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

    Champenois

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    Inherited from Old French pain , from Latin pānem .

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    Noun

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    pain m (plural pains )

    1. (Troyen, Langrois) bread

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    • Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎[2] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
    • Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎[3] (in French), Troyes

    Finnish

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    Noun

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    pain

    1. inflection of pai :
      1. genitive singular
      2. instructive plural

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    French

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    French Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Un pain. (1, 2, 3)
    Pain aux raisins et renversé (café au lait) à Genève, Suisse

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    Inherited from Middle French pain , from Old French pain , from Latin pānem .

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    pain m (plural pains )

    1. bread
    2. piece of bread
    3. food
      • 1830 Juvénal, Les Satires, translated into French verse by Barré de Jallais
        Sa nudité déplaît, sa détresse importune, / Et tous les jours, hélas ! à tout le monde en vain / Il demande une chambre, un habit et du pain.
        His nudity embarrasses, his distress importunes, / And every day, alas! from everyone in vain / He asks for a bedroom, clothes and food.
    4. 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 : [...]
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    5. (informal ) punch (a hit with the fist)
      • 2006, Maurice Léger, Moi, Antoinette Védrines, thanatopractrice et pilier de rugby, Publibook:
        J’étais redescendue dare-dare, bien décidée à lui mettre un pain dans la tronche.
        I had gone back down quickly, determined to give him a punch in the face.
    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, ...)
    8. (slang ) hottie, fox

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    Gedaged

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Oceanic *papine , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi , from Proto-Austronesian *bahi .

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    pain

    1. woman

    Further reading

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    • Ross, Malcolm (1988), Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (Pacific Linguistics; C-98)‎[4] , Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
    • ABVD
    • Gedaged Bible translation, Genesis 1:27: Tamol pain mai inaulak.

    Matukar

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Oceanic *papine , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi , from Proto-Austronesian *bahi .

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    pain

    1. woman

    Further reading

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    • Ross, Malcolm (1988), Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (Pacific Linguistics; C-98)‎[5] , Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

    Middle French

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Old French pain , from Latin pānis, pānem .

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    pain m (plural pains )

    1. bread

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    References

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    • pain on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

    Norman

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    From Old French pain .

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    pain m (plural pains )

    1. (Jersey ) bread
      • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, "Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.", in Guernsey Folk Lore‎[6] , page 538:
        Où est qu'ill y a un cardon ch'est du pain; où est qu'ill y a du laitron, ch'est la faim.
        Where thistles grow there will be bread; where the sow-thistle grows it is famine.

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    Old French

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    Inherited from Latin pānis, pānem .

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    pain oblique singular, m (oblique plural painz , nominative singular painz , nominative plural pain)

    1. bread

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    Ronji

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Oceanic *papine , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi , from Proto-Austronesian *bahi .

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    pain

    1. woman

    Further reading

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    • Ross, Malcolm (1988), Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (Pacific Linguistics; C-98)‎[7] , Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

    Tagalog

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Austronesian *paən (cf. Central Bikol paon and Gorontalo paalo ).

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    pain (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜁᜈ᜔ )

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

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    • "pain", in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

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    Wab

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Oceanic *papine , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi , from Proto-Austronesian *bahi .

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    pain

    1. woman

    Further reading

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    • Ross, Malcolm (1988), Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (Pacific Linguistics; C-98)‎[8] , Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

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