noun
crying in pain; lamentation
Literary or classical term for weeping or lamenting from pain or grief. Rare in modern everyday speech; more common equivalents include 嘆き (なげき) or 悲嘆 (ひたん).
古典文学には、傷嘆の場面がよく描かれる。
Scenes of lamentation are often depicted in classical literature.
Compound of 傷 (しょう, wound, pain) and 嘆 (たん, lament, sigh). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning of crying from pain.