• (RP) enPR: hû(r)t, IPA: /hɜːt/
• (America) enPR: hûrt, IPA: /hɝt/

From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan, from fro-nor hurter "to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter, perhaps from Frankish *hūrt, cognate with Welsh hwrdd and Cornish hordh.

Alternate etymology traces fro-nor hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr, lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr ("stag"), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz ("hart, male deer"), which would relate it to English hart ("male deer").

hurt (hurts, present participle hurting; simple past and past participle hurt)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.

   If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.

   This injection might hurt a little.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

   He was deeply hurt he hadn’t been invited.

   The insult hurt.

3. (intransitive, stative) To be painful.

   Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.

4. (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.

   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.

   • c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV (in Middle English), Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC ↗, Apocalypse II:11, page 643 ↗, column 1:

     He that hath eeris, here he, what the spirit seith to the chirchis. He that ouercometh, schal not be hirt of the secounde deth. ↗

     He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

• (to be painful) smart
• (to cause physical pain and/or injury) wound, injure, dere

• French: faire mal
• German: weh tun, schmerzen
• Italian: dolere, fare male
• Portuguese: doer
• Russian: боле́ть
• Spanish: doler

• French: blesser
• German: verletzen
• Italian: ferire, danneggiare
• Portuguese: ferir, machucar, aleijar
• Russian: причинять боль
• Spanish: lastimar, hacer daño

• French: faire mal, blesser
• German: quälen
• Portuguese: magoar
• Russian: причинять боль

hurt

1. Wounded, physically injured.
2. Pained.

• (wounded) imbrued, injured, wounded; see also Thesaurus:wounded
• (pained) aching, sore, suffering

• French: blessé
• German: verletzt
• Italian: ferito
• Portuguese: machucado, ferido
• Russian: ра́неный
• Spanish: herido

• Russian: оби́женный
• Spanish: dolido

hurt (plural hurts)

1. An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.

   how to overcome old hurts of the past

2. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
   • 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

   • 1693, [John Locke], “§107”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC ↗:

     The pains of sickness and hurts […] all men feel.

3. (archaic) Injury; damage; detriment; harm
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Thou dost me yet but little hurt.

4. (engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
5. A husk. (clarification of this definition is needed)

• hurty

Unclear. Suggestions include: from its resemblance to a blue hurtleberry, or from French heurt (a blow, leaving a blue bruise: compare the theories about golpe ("purple roundel")).

hurt (plural hurts)

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

• French: heurte

1. (uncountable) A town in Virginia.
2. (countable) Surname.