FromMiddle Englishaffliction,affliccioun, fromOld Frenchafliction, borrowed fromLatinafflīctiōnem, fromaffligere, whence Englishafflict.
affliction (countable anduncountable,pluralafflictions)
- A state ofpain,suffering,distress oragony.
1781,[Mostyn John Armstrong],History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk. Volume IX. Containing the Hundreds of Smithdon, Taverham, Tunstead, Walsham, and Wayland, volume IX, Norwich: Printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, bookseller,→OCLC,page51:BEAT on, proud billows;Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high asJove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurlyNereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike,Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed toRoger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]
- Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
1913,Willa Cather,O Pioneers!:She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were anaffliction, but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]
a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony
- Armenian:վիշտ (hy)(višt)
- Bulgarian:болка (bg)(bolka),измъчване (bg)(izmǎčvane),огорчение (bg)(ogorčenie)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese:痛苦(tung3 fu2)
- Mandarin:痛苦 (zh)(tòngkǔ)
- Dutch:lijden (nl) n,pijn (nl) m orf
- Esperanto:aflikto
- Finnish:kärsimys (fi),tuska (fi)
- French:affliction (fr) f,détresse (fr) f
- Galician:anoto m
- German:Leiden (de) n,Behinderung (de) f
- Gothic:𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌷𐍃 m(slahs),𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌹𐌸𐌰 f(aggwiþa)
- Greek:
- Ancient:θλῖψις f(thlîpsis)
- Irish:angar m,galar (ga) m,doilíos m
- Italian:afflizione (it) f
- Ladino:afrision f,afriisyon f
- Macedonian:болка (mk) f(bolka),мака f(maka),страдање n(stradanje),тешкотија f(teškotija)
- Malay:kepayahan f
- Plautdietsch:Älent n
- Polish:cierpienie (pl) n,przypadłość f,afekcja (pl) f(dated)
- Portuguese:aflição (pt) f
- Russian:страда́ние (ru) n(stradánije),печа́ль (ru) f(pečálʹ),огорче́ние (ru) n(ogorčénije),боль (ru) f(bolʹ),го́ре (ru) n(góre),муче́ние (ru) n(mučénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:patnja (sh) f,trpljenje (sh)
- Spanish:aflicción (es) f,tribulación (es) f,quebranto (es) m
- Turkish:ızdırap (tr),dert (tr),keder (tr)
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something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony
Inherited fromOld Frenchafliction, borrowed fromLatinafflīctiōnem.
affliction f (pluralafflictions)
- (countable and uncountable)affliction
