emergency

English

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ɪˈmɝ.dʒən.si/, X-SAMPA: /I"m3`.dZ@n.si/
• Hyphenation: e‧mer‧gen‧cy

  Rhymes: -ɜː(r)dʒənsi

Noun

emergency (plural emergencies)

1. A situation such as a natural or man-made disaster requiring urgent assistance.
2. (Canada, US, often attributive) The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
3. (archaic) The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.

Synonyms

• (hospital department): casualty
• (hospital department): emerg
• (hospital department): ER

Derived terms

• emergency department
• emergency entrance
• emergency room
• emergency ward

Translations

situation requiring urgent assistance

• Arabic: طوارئ (ar) (Tawaari') m, حالة الطوارئ (ar) (Haalat al-Tawaari') f
• Asturian: emerxencia (ast) f, urxencia (ast) f
• Bulgarian: спешен случай (bg) (spešen slučaj) m
• Catalan: emergència (ca) f, urgència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緊急事故 (cmn), 紧急事故 (cmn) (jǐnjí shìgù)

• Czech: nouzová situace (cs), nouze (cs)
• Dutch: nood (nl) m
• Finnish: hätä (fi), hätätilanne (fi)
• French: urgence (fr) f, crise (fr) f
• Galician: emerxencia (gl) f, urxencia (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Notfall (de) m, Notlage (de) f, Notstand (de) m
• Greek: έκτακτη ανάγκη (el) (éktakti anágki) f

• Hebrew: שעת חירום (he)
• Italian: emergenza (it) f
• Japanese: 非常時 (ja) (ひじょうじ, hijōji), 緊急事態 (ja) (きんきゅうじたい, kinkyū-jitai)
• Korean: 비상 사태 (ko) (bisang satae)
• Portuguese: emergência (pt) f, urgência (pt) f
• Romanian: urgență (ro) f, ‎caz de urgență n
• Russian: чрезвычайное положение (ru) (črezvyčájnoje položénije) n, экстренная ситуация (ru) (ékstrennaja situácija) f, чрезвычайное происшествие (ru) (črezvyčájnoje proisšéstvije) n, ч. п. (ru) (če-pé) n
• Scottish Gaelic: èiginn (gd) f
• Spanish: emergencia (es) f, urgencia (es) f
• Swedish: nöd (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

emergency department

• Asturian: urxencia (ast) f
• Catalan: urgència (ca) f
• Czech: pohotovost (cs) f
• Finnish: teho-osasto (fi)

• French: urgences (fr) f pl
• Russian: реанимация (ru) (reanimácija) f, отделение неотложной помощи (ru) (otdelénije neotlóžnoj pómošči) n, неотложка (ru) (neotlóžka) f (colloquial)

Adjective

emergency (not comparable)

1. Related to the emergency or to the provision of assistance.

   emergency vehicles

Derived terms

• emergency medical services
• state of emergency
• emergency response
• Emergency Medical Technician
• The Emergency

See also

• fire department
• police