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From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), cognate with Welsh hwrdd (“ram”) and Cornish hordh (“ram”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”).

Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”),[1] from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.

hurt (third-person singular simple present hurts, present participle hurting, simple past and past participle **hurt)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
    Synonyms: dere, injure, wound; see also Thesaurus:harm, Thesaurus:hurt
    If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.
    This injection might hurt a little. Your arm will be hurting you for a while.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
    Synonyms: affront, wound; see also Thesaurus:offend
    He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.
    The insult hurt.
  3. (intransitive, stative) To be painful.
    Synonyms: ache, smart; see also Thesaurus:suffer
    Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
    Synonyms: mar, thwart; see also Thesaurus:hinder
    This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.
    Copying and pasting identical portions of source code hurts maintainability, because the programmer has to keep all those copies synchronized.
    It wouldn't hurt to check the weather forecast and find out if it's going to rain.

to be painful, to ache

to cause physical pain and/or injury

to cause emotional pain — see also shame

hurt (comparative more hurt, superlative most hurt)

  1. Wounded, physically injured.
    Synonyms: imbrued, injured, wounded; see also Thesaurus:wounded
  2. Feeling physical or emotional pain.
    Synonyms: aching, sore, suffering; see also Thesaurus:painful

wounded, injured

pained

Translations to be checked

hurt (countable and uncountable, plural hurts)

  1. An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
    Synonyms: embarrassment, ignominy; see also Thesaurus:shame
    how to overcome old hurts of the past
  2. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:injury
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act VII, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
      I have received a hurt.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
      The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much
  3. (archaic) Injury; damage; detriment; harm
  4. (engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
  5. A husk. (clarification of this definition is needed)
  1. ^ D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "horn" (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1999), 273.

Unclear. Suggestions include: from its resemblance to a blue hurtleberry, or from French heurt (a blow, leaving a blue bruise), the latter of which would make it a doublet of hurt Etymology 1; compare the theories about golpe (“purple roundel”)).

hurt (plural hurts)

  1. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | tincture | or | argent | gules | azure | sable | vert | purpure | tenné | orange | sanguine | | depiction | a shield of gold | a shield of silver | a shield of red | a shield of blue | a shield of black | a shield of green | a shield of purple | a shield of brownish orange | a shield of bright orange | a shield of blood red | | roundel (in parentheses: semé): | a circle of goldbezant (bezanty) | a circle of silverplate (platy) | a circle of redtorteau (tortelly) | a circle of bluehurt (hurty) | a circle of blackpellet (pellety), ogress | a circle of greenpomme (pommy) | a circle of purplegolpe (golpy) | a circle of orangeorange (semé of oranges) | a circle of blood redguze (semé of guzes) | | | goutte (noun) / gutty (adjective) thereof: | a drop of gold(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold) | a drop of silverd'eau (of water) | a drop of redde sang (of blood) | a drop of bluede larmes (of tears) | a drop of blackde poix (of pitch) | a drop of greend'huile / d'olive (olive oil) | a drop of purple | | | | | | special roundel | furs | uncommon tinctures: | | | | | | | | | | tincture | fountain, syke: barry wavy argent–azure | ermine | ermines, counter-ermine | erminois | pean | vair | counter-vair | potent | counter-potent | bleu celeste, brunatre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey | | depiction | a circle of wavy blue and silver bars | a shield of ermine | a shield of ermines | a shield of erminois | a shield of pean | a shield of vair | a shield of countervair | a shield of potent | a shield of counterpotent | |

From English hurt.

hurt

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to hurt someone emotionally

hurt (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. causing emotional hurt or damage
  2. (of person) emotionally hurt

hurt

  1. inflection of huren:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person plural present
    3. plural imperative

Either borrowed from Old French hurt or a back-formation from hurten.

hurt (plural hurtes)

  1. Injury, harm or damage; that which is detrimental:
    1. A wound or disease; damage to one's body.
    2. Monetary loss; damage to one's finances.
    3. (law) A transgression; the act of violating.
    4. (rare) Spiritual damage.
  2. (rare) A blunder or that which causes one.
  3. (rare) Sadness, distress, confusion.

hurt

  1. alternative form of hurten

Borrowed from Middle High German hurt. Cf. German Hürde.

hurt m inan

  1. wholesale
    Coordinate term: detal

From Middle English hurt.

hurt (feminine singular **hurt, plural hurtion, equative hurted, comparative hurtach, superlative hurtaf, not mutable)

  1. silly, stupid, dull obtuse, foolish
    Synonyms: twp, dwl, pŵl, pendew

hurt m (plural hurtion or hurtiaid or hurtod, not mutable)

  1. (archaic) blockhead, dullard
    Synonyms: hurtyn, dylyn