врач

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Kumyk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Russian врач (vrač).

Noun[edit]

врач (wraç)

  1. physician
    Synonyms: доктор (doktor), эмчи (emçi)

Declension[edit]

Macedonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьračь.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

врач (vračm

  1. witch doctor, medicine man, healer

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Russian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic врачь (vračĭ), from Proto-Slavic *vьračь. By surface analysis, врать (vratʹ) +‎ -ач (-ač). Originally meant "witch-doctor, enchanter".

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [vrat͡ɕ]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -at͡ɕ

Noun[edit]

врач (vračm anim (genitive врача́, nominative plural врачи́, genitive plural враче́й)

  1. (medicine, formal) therapist, not surgeon, not hospital nurse
    Synonym: терапе́вт (terapévt, tɛrapévt)
  2. doc, vet, medic, physician, doctor
    Ка́ждый день я́блоко одно́ — врачу́ остава́ться далеко́, An apple a day keeps the doctor away (literally every day apple a-one is for the physician to stay away).
    Synonyms: до́ктор (dóktor), зна́харь (znáxarʹ), ле́карь (lékarʹ), цели́тель (celítelʹ)

Usage notes[edit]

  1. A female medical doctor is referred to as врач (vrač), or же́нщина-врач (žénščina-vrač), or, colloquially only, врачи́ха (vračíxa), which is dispreferred.
  2. The archaic vocative form вра́чу (vráču) is currently found only in the set phrase:
    вра́чу, исцели́ся самvráču, iscelísja samphysician, heal thyself

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Descendants[edit]

  • Yakut: быраас (bıraas)

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьračь.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

вра̑ч m (Latin spelling vrȃč)

  1. witch doctor (shamanistic priest in aboriginal cultures)
  2. (obsolete) physician, doctor

Declension[edit]

Yakut[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Russian врач (vrač).

Noun[edit]

врач (vrac)

  1. doctor

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