woe is me

English

An otherwise obsolete use of me in a dative context without a preposition (such as at or on).

Compare the identical German Weh ist mir.

(sometimes humorous) Used to show that the speaker feels distress or misery.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 120:5:
  Woe is me, that I soiourne in Mesech: that I dwell in the tents of Kedar.

interjection

Chinese:
Mandarin: 哀哉 (zh) (āizāi)
Esperanto: ve al mi
Finnish: voi minua
French: pauvre de moi
German: weh mir
Greek: οίμοι (el) (oímoi)
Ancient: οἴμοι (oímoi)
Hebrew: אוֹי לִי‎ (oy li)
Hungarian: jaj nekem (hu)
Irish: abhó
Italian: ahimè (it)
Ladino: guay de mí
Latin: mē miserum
Manx: voirrey s'treih
Maori: koae
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stakkars meg
Persian: وای من‎ (vây-e man)
Portuguese: ai de mim
Romanian: vai de mine, vai mie
Russian: го́ре мне (góre mne)
Spanish: ¡ay de mí!
Swedish: stackars mig!
Yiddish: אַ בראָך איז מיר‎ (a brokh iz mir), אַ קלאָג איז מיר‎ (a klog iz mir), וויי איז מיר‎ (vey iz mir), וויי איז צו מיר‎ (vey iz tsu mir), ווינד איז מיר‎ (vind iz mir)

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