Word.ws English Dictionary

ainhum

ainhum noun: a painful constriction of the base of the fifth toe, frequently followed by autoamputation, occurring predominantly in black Africans and their descendants.

Noun

ainhum (uncountable)

  1. A painful constriction of the base of the fifth toe, frequently followed by autoamputation, occurring predominantly in black Africans and their descendants.

ainhum meaning in Tamil and Kannada

ainhum in Tamil

கால் விரல் சூம்புதல்

ainhum in Kannada

ಕಾಲ್ಬೆಟ್ಟುದುರು ರೋಗ, ಬೆಟ್ಟುಮುರಿ ರೋಗ, ಬೆಟ್ಟುಮುರಿ ಬೇನೆ, ಕಾಲ್ಬೆಟ್ಟುದುರು ಬೇನೆ

Origin of ainhum

From Portuguese ainhum.

Words formed from ainhum

Questions about ainhum

What does ainhum mean?
Ainhum means a painful constriction of the base of the fifth toe, frequently followed by autoamputation, occurring predominantly in black Africans and their descendants.
What is ainhum in Tamil?
Ainhum in Tamil is கால் விரல் சூம்புதல். See Ainhum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ainhum?
Ainhum is a noun.

Words near ainhum in the dictionary

  1. ain'tcha
  2. aincha
  3. aincher
  4. Ainderby Steeple
  5. AINEC
  6. ainhum
  7. Ainley
  8. Ainley Top
  9. Ainleys
  10. Aino
  11. ainoi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ainhum (page history and authors); ainhum (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ainhum (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ainhum.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ainhum. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.