English
Etymology
From ear + ache.
Pronunciation
Noun
earache (countable and uncountable, plural earaches)
- (medicine) A pain in the middle or inner ear.
- Synonyms: otalgia, otodynia
- (informal) Annoyance or aggravation caused by noise, especially the sound of someone nagging, complaining, issuing orders, etc.
I can't stay too late at the pub, otherwise I'll get a load of earache from the missus.
Translations
pain in the ear
- Arabic: أَلَم الأُذُنِ (ʔalam al-ʔuḏuni), أَلَم الأُذْنِ (ʔalam al-ʔuḏni)
- Bulgarian: болка в ухото (bolka v uhoto)
- Catalan: otàlgia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 耳痛 (zh) (ěrtòng)
- Danish: ørepine (da) c
- Dutch: oorpijn (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: oreldoloro
- Finnish: korvasärky, korvakipu, otalgia (fi)
- French: otalgie (fr) f
- Galician: otalxia f
- German: Ohrenschmerzen m pl
- Greek: πόνος αυτιού m (pónos aftioú), ωταλγία (el) f (otalgía), πόνος στο αυτί m (pónos sto aftí)
- Indonesian: sakit telinga
- Italian: otalgia (it)
- Japanese: 耳痛 (ja) (じつう, jitsū)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: guhêş f
- Malay: sakit telinga
- Malayalam: ചെവിക്കുത്ത് (cevikkutt)
- Marathi: कानदुखी (kāndukhī)
- Norman: mal ès ouïes m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: øreverk m, ørepine m or f
- Nynorsk: øyreverk m
- Occitan: otalgia f
- Polish: otalgia (pl), ból ucha
- Portuguese: otalgia f
- Romanian: durere de ureche f
- Russian: ушна́я боль f (ušnája bolʹ), оталги́я (ru) f (otalgíja)
- Spanish: dolor de oído m, otalgia f
- Tagalog: sakit-tainga
- Tahitian: tui
- Tamil: காதுவலி (kātuvali), செவிக்குத்து (ta) (cevikkuttu), செவிவலி (cevivali)
- Telugu: చెవిపోటు (te) (cevipōṭu)
- Turkish: kulak ağrısı
- Welsh: pigyn clust m
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