| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 悩み | なやみ | trouble(s), worry, distress, sorrows, anguish, agony, problem |
| 悩ます | なやます | to afflict, to torment, to harass, to molest |
| 苦悩 | くのう | suffering, distress, affliction, anguish, agony, trouble |
| 悩む | なやむ | to be worried, to be troubled |
| 伸び悩む | のびなやむ | to be sluggish (business) |
| 悩ましい | なやましい | seductive, carnal, enchanting; troubling, difficult, thorny, hard; anxious, uneasy |
| 思い悩む | おもいなやむ | to worry |
| 煩悩 | ぼんのう | klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) |
| 悩みごと | なやみごと | something causing worry |
| 悩ましげ | なやましげ | languishing, yearning, desiring |