pain
verb
- cause hurt to
noun
- an ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence
- unpleasant feeling of a psychological nature
- something annoying or otherwise troublesome
- effort taken to accomplish a goal
- painful struggle during childbirth
- imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome
- act/process of causing hurt
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ̯n/ / [ˈpʰeɪ̯n] / /ˈpæɪ̯n/
name
Etymology: Various origins: * A variant of Paine. * Borrowed from Spanish Paín.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English payn (“a kind of pie with a soft crust”), from Old French pain (“bread”).
- Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
“gammon pain; Spanish pain”
verb
Etymology: 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).
- 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.”
- To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
“It pains me to say that I must let you go.”
- To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
- To hurt; to feel painful.
“My infernal thumb pains yet like the very devil.”
- To feel pain; to hurt.
“Please help me: I am paining hard.”
“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.”