ailment

English

Etymology

From ail +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪlmənt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

ailment (plural ailments)

1. Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

Derived terms

• status ailment

1. Synonym: complaint

Translations

something which ails one; a disease; sickness

Apache: Western Apache: kaa naghaa Arabic: مَرَض (ar) (maraḍ), اعتِلال, وَعكَة Bikol Central: hilang (bcl) Bulgarian: болест (bg) f (bolest), болка (bg) f (bolka) Chinese: Mandarin: 疾病 (zh) (jíbìng) Danish: lidelse (da) c, sygdom (da) c, svaghed c Dutch: aandoening (nl) f Esperanto: malsano (eo), malsaneto (eo), afekcio Finnish: sairaus (fi), vaiva (fi) French: maladie (fr) f Galician: doenza (gl) f, enfermidade (gl) f German: Leiden (de) n Greek: ασθένεια (el) f (asthéneia), αρρώστια (el) f (arróstia), νόσος (el) f (nósos), πάθηση (el) f (páthisi) Ancient: νόσος f (nósos) Ingrian: läsy, tauti, topi (dialectal) Irish: breoiteacht f Italian: disturbo (it) m, indisposizione (it) f, affezione (it) f, male (it) m, malattia (it) f, acciacco (it) m, malanno (it) m Japanese: 病気 (ja) (びょうき, byōki) Kazakh: ауру (kk) (auru), дерт (dert), кесел (kesel), науқас (nauqas) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دەرد (derd) Latin: morbus (la) Occitan: malautiá (oc) f Polish: dolegliwość (pl) f Portuguese: enfermidade (pt) f Romanian: indispoziție (ro) Russian: боле́знь (ru) f (boléznʹ), неду́г (ru) m (nedúg), нездоро́вье (ru) n (nezdoróvʹje), недомога́ние (ru) n (nedomogánije) Scottish Gaelic: galar m, tinneas m, euslaint f, trioblaid f Spanish: dolencia (es) f, enfermedad (es) f, achaque (es) m, alifafe (es) m, dolama (es) f Telugu: రోగము (te) (rōgamu) Turkish: hastalık (tr), rahatsızlık (tr)

Further reading

• “ailment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ailment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• aliment, maltine, netmail