From ail + -ment.
ailment (plural ailments)
- 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.
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)
- 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)
- Telugu: రోగము (te) (rōgamu)
- Turkish: hastalık (tr), rahatsızlık (tr)
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- “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.