How to Say Suffering in Different Languages
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Please find below many ways to say suffering in different languages. This page features translation of the word "suffering" to over 100 other languages. We also invite you to listen to audio pronunciation in more than 40 languages, so you could learn how to pronounce suffering and how to read it.
Saying Suffering in European Languages
| Language | Ways to say suffering | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | duke vuajtur | |
| Basque | sufrimendua | |
| Belarusian | пакуты [pakuty] | |
| Bosnian | patnja | |
| Bulgarian | страдание [stradanie] | |
| Catalan | patiment | |
| Corsican | soffrenu | |
| Croatian | pati | |
| Czech | utrpení | |
| Danish | lidelse | |
| Dutch | lijden | |
| Estonian | kannatused | |
| Finnish | kärsimystä | |
| French | Souffrance | |
| Frisian | lijen | |
| Galician | sufrimento | |
| German | Leiden | |
| Greek | ταλαιπωρία [talaiporía] | |
| Hungarian | szenvedő | |
| Icelandic | þjáningu | |
| Irish | fulaingt | |
| Italian | sofferenza | |
| Latvian | ciešanas | |
| Lithuanian | kančia | |
| Luxembourgish | leiden | |
| Macedonian | страдање [stradanje] | |
| Maltese | tbatija | |
| Norwegian | lidelse | |
| Polish | cierpienie | |
| Portuguese | sofrimento | |
| Romanian | suferinţă | |
| Russian | страдания [stradaniya] | |
| Scots Gaelic | fulangas | |
| Serbian | патња [patnja] | |
| Slovak | utrpenie | |
| Slovenian | trpljenje | |
| Spanish | sufrimiento | |
| Swedish | lidande | |
| Tatar | газаплар | |
| Ukrainian | страждання [strazhdannya] | |
| Welsh | dioddefaint | |
| Yiddish | צאָרעס [tsores] | |
Saying Suffering in Asian Languages
| Language | Ways to say suffering | |
|---|---|---|
| Armenian | տառապանք [tarrapank’] | |
| Azerbaijani | əziyyət | |
| Bengali | কষ্ট [kaṣṭa] | |
| Chinese Simplified | 痛苦 [tòngkǔ] | |
| Chinese Traditional | 痛苦 [tòngkǔ] | |
| Georgian | ტანჯვა [t’anjva] | |
| Gujarati | વેદના [vēdanā] | |
| Hindi | कष्ट [kasht] | |
| Hmong | kev txom nyem | |
| Japanese | 苦しむ | |
| Kannada | ಬಳಲುತ್ತಿರುವ [baḷaluttiruva] | |
| Kazakh | азап [azap] | |
| Khmer | រងទុក្ខ | |
| Korean | 고통 [gotong] | |
| Kyrgyz | азап [azap] | |
| Lao | ຄວາມທຸກທໍລະມານ [khuaamthuktholaman] | |
| Malayalam | കഷ്ടപ്പാടുകൾ [kashtappadukal] | |
| Marathi | दुःख [trāsa] | |
| Mongolian | зовлон [zovlon] | |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | ဆင်းရဲဒုက္ခ [sainnrelldukhk] | |
| Nepali | पीडा [kaṣṭa] | |
| Odia | ଦୁ suffering ଖ | |
| Pashto | رنځ | |
| Punjabi | ਦੁੱਖ [dukha] | |
| Sindhi | تڪليف | |
| Sinhala | දුක් විඳිනවා [duk vin̆dinavā] | |
| Tajik | азоб кашидан | |
| Tamil | துன்பம் [tuṉpam] | |
| Telugu | బాధ [bādha] | |
| Thai | ความทุกข์ | |
| Turkish | cefa | |
| Turkmen | ejir çekýär | |
| Urdu | تکلیف | |
| Uyghur | ئازاب | |
| Uzbek | azob chekish | |
| Vietnamese | Đau khổ | |
Saying Suffering in Middle-Eastern Languages
| Language | Ways to say suffering | |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | معاناة [mueanaa] | |
| Hebrew | סֵבֶל | |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | cefayê | |
| Persian | رنج کشیدن | |
Saying Suffering in African Languages
| Language | Ways to say suffering | |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | lyding | |
| Amharic | መከራ [mekera] | |
| Chichewa | kuvutika | |
| Hausa | wahala | |
| Igbo | nhụjuanya | |
| Kinyarwanda | kubabara | |
| Sesotho | mahlomola | |
| Shona | kutambura | |
| Somali | silica | |
| Swahili | mateso | |
| Xhosa | ukubandezeleka | |
| Yoruba | ijiya | |
| Zulu | ukuhlupheka | |
Saying Suffering in Austronesian Languages
| Language | Ways to say suffering | |
|---|---|---|
| Cebuano | pag-antos | |
| Filipino | paghihirap | |
| Hawaiian | ehaeha | |
| Indonesian | menderita | |
| Javanese | kasangsaran | |
| Malagasy | NY FIJALIANA | |
| Malay | penderitaan | |
| Maori | mamae | |
| Samoan | puapuaga | |
| Sundanese | sangsara | |
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"Suffering in Different Languages." In Different Languages, https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/suffering. Accessed 22 Sep 2023.
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