ailment

English

Etymology

From ail +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪlmənt/

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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^[1]:

     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

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), 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), 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.
• “ailment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• aliment, maltine, netmail