# wound
## English
### Etymology 1

Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: wo͞ond, IPA: /wuːnd/
** (MLE) IPA: /wyːnd/
* (US) enPR: wo͞ond, IPA: /wund/
* (obsolete) enPR: wound, IPA: /waʊnd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːnd

#### Noun

wound (plural wounds)
* An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
** 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
** 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 3, scene 3]:Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
** 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
* (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
    It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
* (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

##### Synonyms

* (injury): injury, lesion
* (something that offends a person's feelings): slight, slur, insult
* See also Thesaurus:injury

##### Derived terms

* axe wound
* Blighty wound
* contact wound
* defense wound
* defensive wound
* dirty wound
* entrance wound
* entry wound
* exit wound
* flesh wound
* gutter wound
* hatchet wound
* hesitation wound
* keyhole wound
* lick one's wounds
* open wound
* put a band-aid on a bullet wound
* reopen old wounds
* rub salt in the wound
* salt in the wound
* self-defense wound
* stab wound
* tentative wound
* time heals all wounds
* time heals every wound
* turn the knife in the wound
* twist the knife in the wound
* wound collecting
* wound collection
* wound collector
* wound gall

##### Translations

Abkhaz: ахәра (axʷra)
Afrikaans: wond
Albanian: plagë (sq) f, lëndim (sq) m
Arabic: جُرْح (ar) m (jurḥ)
Egyptian Arabic: جرح m (gurḥ)
Armenian: վերք (hy) (verkʻ)
Aromanian: pleagã f, aranã f, ranã f
Azerbaijani: yara (az), xəsarət
Bashkir: яра (yara), йәрәхәт (yərəxət)
Basque: zauri
Belarusian: ра́на f (rána)
Bengali: ক্ষত (bn) (khot), জখম (bn) (jokhom), ঘাত (bn) (ghat)
Bikol Central: lugad (bcl)
Bulgarian: ра́на (bg) f (rána)
Burmese: ဒဏ်ရာ (my) (danra)
Catalan: ferida (ca) f
Chechen: чов (čov)
Cherokee: ᎤᏐᏅᏅ (usonvnv)
Chichewa: bala
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傷口 / 伤口 (zh) (shāngkǒu), 傷害 / 伤害 (zh) (shānghài)
Chukchi: атын
Chuvash: суран (suran)
Cimbrian: bunta f
Crimean Tatar: yara
Czech: rána (cs) f
Danish: skade (da) c, sår (da) n
Dutch: wonde (nl) f, verwonding (nl) f, kwetsuur (nl) f, wond (nl) f
Egyptian: (wbnw m)
Erzya: сэредькс (sëreďks), керявкс (keŕavks)
Esperanto: vundo (eo)
Estonian: haav (et)
Even: хуи (huji)
Evenki: хуе (huje)
Finnish: haava (fi)
French: blessure (fr) f, plaie (fr) f
Friulian: feride f
Galician: ferida (gl) f, chaga f, mancadura f
Georgian: ჭრილობა (č̣riloba)
German: Wunde (de) f, Verletzung (de) f
Greek: τραύμα (el) n (trávma)
Ancient: τραῦμα n (traûma), ὠτειλή f (ōteilḗ)
Haitian Creole: blesi
Hebrew: פֶּצַע (he) m (pétsa), פְּגִיעָה f (p'gi'á)
Hindi: घाव (hi) m (ghāv)
Hungarian: seb (hu)
Icelandic: sár (is) n
Indonesian: luka (id), cedera (id), lecet (id)
Ingrian: haava, raana
Ingush: чов (čov)
Irish: créacht f, áladh m
Italian: lesione (it) f, ferita (it) f
Japanese: 傷 (ja) (きず, kizu), 怪我 (ja) (けが, kega)
Javanese: tatu (jv)
Kapampangan: sugat
Kazakh: жара (jara), жарақат (jaraqat), зақым (zaqym)
Khmer: របួស (km) (rɔbuəh)
Korean: 상처 (ko) (sangcheo)
Kyrgyz: жара (ky) (jara), жаракат (ky) (jarakat), жараат (ky) (jaraat)
Lao: ບາດແຜ (bāt phǣ), ບາດ (bāt), ແຜ (phǣ)
Latin: plāga (la) f, vulnus n
Latvian: brūce (lv) f
Lutuv: hmaa
Lithuanian: žaizda (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Wonn f
Macedonian: ра́на (mk) f (rána)
Malay: luka
Maltese: ferita f, pjaga f
Manchu: ᡶᡝᠶᡝ (feye), ᡶᡠᡵᡩᠠᠨ (furdan)
Maori: tūnga, wharatanga, taotūtanga
Mbyá Guaraní: ai
Middle English: wounde, hurt
Moksha: сярядькс (säräďks), керф (kerf)
Mongolian: шарх (mn) (šarx)
Nanai: пуе (puje)
Ngazidja Comorian: ɓanguzi class 5/6
Norman: bliesseûthe f (Jersey)
Norwegian: sår (no) n, skade (no) m
Bokmål: flein n
Occitan: ferida (oc) f
Old English: benn, wund
Old Javanese: tatu
Oromo: madaa
Ossetian: цӕф (cæf), хъӕдгом (qædgom)
Ottoman Turkish: یاره (yara)
Pashto: زخم (ps) m (záxəm)
Persian: زخم (fa) (zaxm)
Polish: rana (pl) f
Portuguese: ferimento (pt) m, ferida (pt) f, lesão (pt) f, mágoa (pt) f, machucado (pt) m, chaga (pt) f
Romanian: rană (ro), plagă (ro), leziune (ro) f
Romansch: plaja f, plaga f, plaia f, pleja f
Russian: ра́на (ru) f (rána), ране́ние (ru) n (ranénije), тра́вма (ru) f (trávma)
Salar: şañ
Sanskrit: क्षति (sa) f (kṣati)
Scottish Gaelic: leòn m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рана f
Roman: rana (sh) f
Sidamo: mada
Sinhalese: තුවාලය (tuwālaya)
Slovak: rána f
Slovene: rana (sl) f
Somali: qoon
Southern Altai: јара (ǰara)
Spanish: herida (es) f, llaga (es) f, ferida (es) f (disused)
Swahili: uvimbe (sw), jeraha (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: skada (sv) c, sår (sv) n
Tagalog: sugat
Tajik: захм (tg) (zaxm)
Talysh: yara
Tamil: புண் (ta) (puṇ), காயம் (ta) (kāyam)
Tarifit: ayezzim m
Tat: yara
Tatar: җәрәхәт (tt) (cäräxät)
Telugu: గాయము (te) (gāyamu)
Ternate: nyabo
Thai: บาดแผล (th) (bàat-plɛ̌ɛ)
Tibetan: རྨ (rma)
Tocharian B: pīle
Turkish: hasar (tr), yara (tr)
Turkmen: ýara
Tuvan: балыг (balıg)
Ukrainian: ра́на f (rána)
Urdu: گھاو (ghāv)
Uyghur: جاراھەت (jarahet)
Uzbek: yara (uz), jarohat (uz)
Vietnamese: vết thương (vi)
Volapük: vun (vo)
West Flemish: gabbe f
Wutunhua: maka
Xârâcùù: xwâdöu
Yakut: баас (baas)
Yiddish: וווּנד f (vund) :
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#### Verb

wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)
* (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
    Synonyms: damage, harm; see also Thesaurus:harm, Thesaurus:hurt
    The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
* (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
    Synonyms: affront, hurt; see also Thesaurus:offend
    The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
** 1984 December 8, Michael Bronski, Andrea Loewenstein, “Family & Friends: Writers Talk Community”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 12:I find neglect or rejection from my own community much harder to take and more wounding than the same thing or worse from the outside world.

##### Usage notes

* In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb wound had the form woundest, and had woundedst for its past tense.
* Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form woundeth was used.

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

See wind (Etymology 2)

#### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /waʊnd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aʊnd

#### Verb

wound
* simple past and past participle of wind
** 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Fate of the Artemis”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:“ […] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”

##### Derived terms

* drum-wound
* flat-wound
* round-wound
* series-wound
* wound rotor
* wound-up

### References

* ↑ Grandgent, C. H. (1899) “From Franklin to Lowell”, in James W. Bright, editor, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association‎, volume 14, number 2, Modern Language Association of America, →DOI, page 238
* ↑ Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎, volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 150.