Feminine

Pein

Meaning

(feminine,literary) torment; agony
(archaic,dialectal,feminine) pain

pain, agony

difficulty in understanding

Seelenschmerz

Märtyrertod

Höllenpein

Höllenqual

au

Märtyrium

Peinigung

Folterung

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/paɪ̯n/

From Middle High German pīne, from Old High German pīna, from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“torment, pain”).

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