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English
Etymology
From Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner, of Germanic origin; see mayhem.
Pronunciation
Verb
maim (third-person singular simple present maims, present participle maiming, simple past and past participle maimed)
- To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
- Synonym: mutilate
He was maimed by a bear.
1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider ”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A Munsey Company, , published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), pages 377–378:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Derived terms
Translations
to cause permanent loss of a part of the body
- Arabic: شَوِهَ (šawiha), بَتَرَ (ar) (batara)
- Armenian: հաշմանդամ դարձնել (hašmandam darjnel), հաշմել (hy) (hašmel), խեղել (hy) (xeġel)
- Belarusian: няве́чыць impf (njavjéčycʹ), зняве́чыць pf (znjavjéčycʹ), кале́чыць impf (kaljéčycʹ), скале́чыць pf (skaljéčycʹ), пакале́чыць pf (pakaljéčycʹ)
- Bulgarian: осакатя́вам (bg) impf (osakatjávam), осакате́я pf (osakatéja)
- Catalan: mutilar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 殘害/残害 (zh) (cánhài), 致殘/致残 (zh) (zhìcán)
- Czech: zmrzačit pf, zohavit pf
- Danish: lemlæste
- Dutch: verminken (nl)
- Finnish: vammauttaa (fi), silpoa, runnella (fi)
- French: mutiler (fr), estropier (fr)
- Galician: mutilar (gl), fanar, toller (gl), eivar (gl)
- Georgian: დასახიჩრება (dasaxičreba)
- German: verstümmeln (de), verschandeln (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: πηρόω (pēróō)
- Hungarian: csonkít (hu)
- Icelandic: limlesta (is)
- Italian: menomare (it), mutilare (it)
- Japanese: 不具にする (ふぐにする, fugu ni suru)
- Korean: 불구로 만들다 (bulgu-ro mandeulda)
- Latin: dēbilitō, mutilō, truncō
- Macedonian: осакатува impf (osakatuva), осакати pf (osakati)
- Maori: whakatūroro, whakahauā
- Norwegian: lemleste
- Polish: okaleczać impf, okaleczyć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: mutilar (pt)
- Romanian: mutila (ro)
- Russian: уве́чить (ru) impf (uvéčitʹ), изуве́чить (ru) pf (izuvéčitʹ), кале́чить (ru) impf (kaléčitʹ), покале́чить (ru) pf (pokaléčitʹ), искале́чить (ru) pf (iskaléčitʹ), уро́довать (ru) impf (uródovatʹ), изуро́довать (ru) pf (izuródovatʹ)
- Sicilian: acciuncari (scn), mutilari, truncari, tagghiari (scn)
- Spanish: mutilar (es)
- Swedish: lemlästa (sv), stympa (sv)
- Ukrainian: ні́вечити impf (nívečyty), зні́вечити pf (znívečyty), калі́чити impf (kalíčyty), покалі́чити pf (pokalíčyty)
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Noun
maim (plural maims)
- (obsolete) A severe, serious wound.
1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, , London: [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N L and C B , →OCLC, page 1:it ſequeſtred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance, which is as great a maime to any mans happineſſe as can bee feared from the hands of miſerie, or the deepe pit of diſpaire wherinto I was falne, beyond my greateſt friendes reach to recouer mee
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
maim
- Alternative form of maym
Tocharian B
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *mēdye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor and Old Irish midithir), or alternatively to *meh₁-ye/o- from *meh₁- (“to measure”) (whence Latin mētior). Compare Tocharian A mem.
Noun
maim m
- thought, thinking
Enenkaś paspārtau cwi maim palskw attsaik.- Completely turned inward his thought and spirit.