It is a symbol of the great hurt done to Bajor.

See it in your face that you already suffer great hurt from elephant, you or someone near you.

He'll listen to me, if it comes to that, but he wouldn't do anything to hurt people, except to stop a greater hurt.

She already knew that she would but inside she felt a great hurt begin to grow.

She must be hurt this way that she does not suffer greater hurt.

There, too, her great hurt had flung some of the blame.

He found refuge in a greater hurt, a more poignant loss.

Sioned was a little hurt, even in her greater hurt, at his desertion.

A great hurt to one is insignificant when borne by the entire soul-mass.

Surely the sentence should read "My friend lost her mother this year," with correct emphasis on her greater hurt.