torture, torment, anguish, suffering (extreme mental or emotional pain) · ball and chain, trouble and strife, lord and master (one's own partner or spouse)
çekim: çoğul βάσανα · tamlayan βασάνου
köken: From Byzantine Greek βάσανον (básanon), from Ancient Greek βάσανος (básanos, “examination, inquiry, investigation”); modern sense developed from the association of investigations and inquisitions of prisoners with physical tortures.
Το μεγαλύτερο βάσανό του ήταν ο θάνατος της κόρης του.
köken: Originally a Buddhist term, imported into Japanese when Buddhism was introduced to Japan, some time during the Kofun, Asuka, and Nara periods. From Middle Chinese 邪魔 (MC zjae ma, literally “wrong, evil, perverse" + "devil, demon”). Compare modern Mandarin 邪魔 (xiémó).
trouble, matter, problem · battle, combat, fight, duel · ill, trouble, condition, complaint (a certain abnormal state of health)
çekim: çoğul bajok
köken: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian boj (“battle”).
aile: bajlódik, bajos, a baj nem jár egyedül, annyi baj legyen, bajba jut, kerül, keveredik, bajban ismerszik meg a jó barát, ellátja a baját, bajvívás
to disturb, to inconvenience, to bother, to interfere with (to affect adversely the actions of other people, in ways unwanted by them (e.g., by distracting their attention); to cause them problem)
çekim: geçmiş traucēju · ortaç traucēts · şimdiki traucē
köken: From the same stem as traukt (“to pull, to tear, to pluck”) (q.v.), of which it was originally the iterative form. The original meaning can sometimes be found dialectally (traucēt ābolus “to pick apples (from a tree)”); the current standard meaning is derived by association (“to pull repeatedly (a living being, a person)” > “to annoy” > “to disturb”).