harm
English
/hɑɹm/, /hɑːm/
noun
Definitions
- physical injury; hurt; damage
- emotional or figurative hurt
- detriment; misfortune.
- That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English harm inherited from Old English hearm inherited from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (pain, harm, shame).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*harmaz
Gloss
pain, harm, shame
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
恥, 羞
Emoji
🖌️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- doing English
- harmable English
- harmdoing English
- harmer English
- harmest English
- harmeth English
- harmful English
- harmfuller English
- harmfully English
- harmfulness English
- harmless English
- harmlessly English
- harmlessness English
- nonharm English
- nonharmful English
- self-harm English
- self-harmer English
- unharmable English
- unharmful English
- *ḱormo- Proto-Indo-European
- *harmaz Proto-Germanic
- harm Swedish
- hearm Old English
- hearmcweþan Old English
- harm Middle English
- harmful Middle English
- harmles Middle English
- harmr Old Norse
- शर्म Hindi
- شرم Persian
- harm Old High German
- harm Old Saxon
- 𐭱𐭥𐭬 Middle Persian