悩ます

なやます · nayamasu · JLPT N1 · verb-godan

to bother

🦟 悩む (to worry) + causative = make someone worried, i.e. to bother or harass

悩 carries the heart radical 忄, marking it as a feeling. 悩む means to be troubled; 悩ます is the causative, to trouble someone else. A mosquito bothers people in the same way.

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