trauma

See also: Trauma and traumą

English

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trauma

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɔː.mə/, /ˈtɹaʊ.mə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɔ.mə/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɑ.mə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːmə, -aʊmə

Noun

trauma (countable and uncountable, plural traumas or traumata)

1. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

   Synonym: insult

   • 2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN‎:

     Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

2. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in The Guardian‎:

     Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

3. An event that causes great distress.

Derived terms

• atelectrauma
• barotrauma
• biotrauma
• dialytrauma
• geotrauma
• macrotrauma
• microtrauma
• monotrauma
• multitrauma
• myotrauma
• neurotrauma
• nontrauma
• oxytrauma
• phonotrauma
• polytrauma
• posttrauma
• psychotrauma
• rape trauma syndrome
• rheotrauma
• suspension trauma
• trauma centre
• traumacore
• trauma dump
• trauma dumping
• trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
• trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy
• trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy
• traumagenic
• trauma incidence reduction
• trauma-informed
• traumaless
• trauma naked
• trauma plate
• traumascape
• trauma scissors
• trauma shears
• traumatic
• traumatise, traumatize
• traumatism
• traumatology

Translations

serious injury to the body

Arabic: إِصَابَة f (ʔiṣāba) Armenian: վնասվածք (hy) (vnasvackʻ) Azerbaijani: zədə, travma Belarusian: тра́ўма f (tráŭma), ра́на f (rána) Bengali: আঘাত (bn) (aghat) Bulgarian: тра́вма f (trávma), ра́на (bg) f (rána) Chinese: Mandarin: 負傷 / 负伤 (zh) (fùshāng), 損傷 / 损伤 (zh) (sǔnshāng), 外傷 / 外伤 (zh) (wàishāng), 創傷 / 创伤 (zh) (chuāngshāng) Czech: trauma (cs) n, úraz (cs) m Danish: traume n, men (da) Dutch: trauma (nl) n Esperanto: traŭmato Finnish: vamma (fi), ruumiinvamma (fi); trauma (fi) (medical profession jargon) French: traumatisme (fr) m, trauma (fr) m Galician: trauma (gl) f, traumatismo (gl) m Georgian: ტრავმა (ka) (ṭravma) German: Trauma (de) n Greek: τραύμα (el) n (trávma) Hebrew: טְרָאוּמָה (he) f (trá'uma) Hindi: आघात (hi) m (āghāt) Hungarian: trauma (hu), sérülés (hu), seb (hu), sebesülés (hu) Indonesian: trauma (id) Italian: trauma (it) m Japanese: 外傷 (ja) (がいしょう, gaishō), 損傷 (ja) (そんしょう, sonshō) Kazakh: жарақат (jaraqat) Korean: 외상(外傷) (oesang), 손상(損傷) (ko) (sonsang) Kyrgyz: жаракат (ky) (jarakat) Macedonian: траума f (trauma) Maori: ngaukino, pāmamaetanga Mongolian: Cyrillic: гэмтэл (mn) (gemtel) Mongolian: ᠭᠡᠮᠲᠦᠯ (gemtül) Persian: ضربت (fa) (zarbat), ضربه (fa) (zarbe), آسیب (fa) (âsib), جراحت (fa) (jerâhat) Polish: uraz (pl) m, trauma (pl) Portuguese: traumatismo (pt) m Romanian: traumatism (ro) n Russian: тра́вма (ru) f (trávma), ра́на (ru) f (rána) (w) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тра̀ума f Roman: tràuma (sh) f Slovak: trauma f, úraz m, zranenie n Slovene: travma f, poškodba (sl) f Spanish: traumatismo (es) m Tajik: осеб (tg) (oseb), ҷароҳат (jarohat) Tatar: җәрәхәт (tt) (cäräxät) Turkish: travma (tr), sakatlık (tr) Ukrainian: тра́вма (uk) f (trávma), ра́на f (rána) Uyghur: جاراھەت (jarahet) Uzbek: travma (uz), yara (uz), jarohat (uz) Vietnamese: chấn thương

emotional wound

Afrikaans: trauma Arabic: صَدْمَةٌ عَاطِفِيَّة f (ṣadmatun ʕāṭifiyya) Belarusian: тра́ўма f (tráŭma), ра́на f (rána) Bikol Central: raya (bcl) Bulgarian: тра́вма f (trávma) Chinese: Cantonese: 陰影 / 阴影 (jam1 jing2) (informal), 精神創傷 / 精神创伤 (zing1 san4 cong3 soeng1) (formal) Mandarin: 精神創傷 / 精神创伤 (jīngshén chuāngshāng), 心理陰影 / 心理阴影 (xīnlǐ yīnyǐng) Czech: trauma (cs) n Danish: traume n, men (da) Dutch: trauma (nl) n Esperanto: traŭmato Finnish: trauma (fi) French: traumatisme (fr) Galician: trauma (gl) f Georgian: ტრავმა (ka) (ṭravma) German: Trauma (de) n Hebrew: טְרָאוּמָה (he) f (trá'uma) Hungarian: trauma (hu), megrázkódtatás (hu) Indonesian: trauma (id) Italian: trauma (it) m Japanese: トラウマ (ja) (torauma), 心的外傷 (しんてきがいしょう, shinteki gaishō), 心の傷 (こころのきず, kokoro no kizu) Korean: 정신적 외상(精神的外傷) (jeongsinjeok oesang) Maori: whētuki, ngaukino Polish: trauma (pl) f, uraz psychiczny m Portuguese: trauma (pt) m Romanian: traumă (ro) f Russian: тра́вма (ru) f (trávma), ра́на (ru) f (rána) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тра̀ума f Roman: tràuma (sh) f Spanish: trauma (es) m Turkish: sarsıntı (tr), travma (tr) Ukrainian: тра́вма (uk) f (trávma), ра́на f (rána)

event

Afrikaans: trauma Chinese: Mandarin: 痛苦的經歷 / 痛苦的经历 (tòngkǔ de jīnglì), 挫折 (zh) (cuòzhé) Dutch: trauma (nl) n Finnish: trauma (fi) French: traumatisme (fr) m Georgian: ტრავმა (ka) (ṭravma) German: Trauma (de) n Hebrew: טְרָאוּמָה (he) f (trá'uma) Hungarian: megrázó/traumatikus esemény Maori: whētuki Portuguese: trauma (pt) m Russian: тра́вма (ru) f (trávma) Spanish: trauma (es) m Turkish: travma (tr)

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References

• “trauma”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• trauma in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “trauma”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Murata, Tamura, matura

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾaw.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾaw.ma]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

trauma m (plural traumes)

1. trauma

Derived terms

• traumatitzar

Related terms

• traumàtic

Further reading

• “trauma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “trauma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “trauma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trauma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.