acupuncture

English

Etymology

From Latin acus (“needle”) + puncture; surface analysis, acu- +‎ puncture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.kju.ˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃɝ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

acupuncture (usually uncountable, plural acupunctures)

1. The insertion of needles into the (living) tissue of the body, especially for purposes of pain relief.

Related terms

• acupuncturist
• electroacupuncture

Translations

insertion of needles for remedial purposes

• Afrikaans: akupunktuur (af)
• Arabic: الوَخْز بِالْإِبْر f (al-waḵz bi-l-ʔibr)
• Armenian: ասեղնաբուժություն (hy) (aseġnabužutʻyun)
• Assamese: আকুপাংচাৰ (akupaṅsar)
• Asturian: acupuntura f
• Azerbaijani: akupunktura
• Basque: akupuntura
• Belarusian: акупункту́ра f (akupunktúra)
• Bengali: আকুপাংচার (akupaṅcar)
• Bulgarian: акупункту́ра f (akupunktúra)
• Catalan: acupuntura (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏴᎩ ᎠᏑᎶᏙᏗᏍᎩ (yvgi asulododisgi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 針灸／针灸 (zam¹ gau³), 針術／针术 (zam¹ seot⁶)

  Hakka: 針灸／针灸 (chṳ̂m-kiu)

  Mandarin: 針灸／针灸 (zh), 针灸 (zh) (zhēnjiǔ), 針術／针术 (zh) (zhēnshù), 针术 (zh) (zhēnshù)

  Min Nan: 針灸／针灸 (zh-min-nan) (chiam-kù)

• Czech: akupunktura (cs) f
• Danish: akupunktur (da) c
• Dutch: acupunctuur (nl) f
• Esperanto: akupunkturo (eo)
• Estonian: akupunktuur, nõelravi
• Faroese: akupunktur m
• Finnish: akupunktio (fi)
• French: acupuncture (fr) f
• Galician: acupuntura f
• German: Akupunktur (de) f
• Greek: βελονισμός (el) m (velonismós)
• Hebrew: דִּקּוּר סִינִי / דיקור סיני (he) m (dikur sini)
• Hindi: एक्यूपंक्चर (ekyūpaṅkcar)
• Hungarian: akupunktúra (hu)
• Icelandic: nálastungulækningar m
• Indonesian: akupunktur (id), tusuk jarum (id)
• Interlingua: acupunctura
• Irish: snáthaidpholladh m
• Italian: agopuntura (it) f
• Japanese: 鍼 (ja) (はり, hari), 鍼治療 (はりちりょう, harichiryō), 鍼治 (ja) (しんじ, shinji), 鍼術 (しんじゅつ, shinjutsu)
• Kannada: ಸೂಜಿ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ (kn) (sūji cikitse), ಸೂಜಿಮಾಂಜುಗೆ (kn) (sūjimāñjuge)
• Kazakh: акупунктура (akupunktura)
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• Korean: 침술 (ko) (chimsul)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: akupunktur (ku)

• Kyrgyz: акупунктура (ky) (akupunktura)
• Latvian: akupunktūra f
• Lithuanian: akupunktūra f
• Luxembourgish: Akupunktur f
• Macedonian: акупункту́ра f (akupunktúra)
• Malagasy: tsindrona volamena
• Malay: akupunktur
• Maori: hauora-ā-ngira, haumanu-ā-ngira
• Marathi: ॲक्युपंक्चर (ĕkyupaṅkcar)
• Mongolian: зүү эмчилгээ (züü emčilgee)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: akupunktur (no) m

  Nynorsk: akupunktur m

• Occitan: acupontura f
• Persian: طب سوزنی (fa) (tebb-e suzani)
• Polish: akupunktura (pl) f
• Portuguese: acupuntura (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਐਕਿਉਪੰਕਚਰ (aikiupaṅkcar)
• Romanian: acupunctură (ro) f
• Russian: акупункту́ра (ru) f (akupunktúra), иглоука́лывание (ru) n (igloukályvanije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: акупункту́ра f

  Roman: akupunktúra (sh) f

• Sinhalese: කටු චිකිත්සාව n (kaṭu cikitsāwa), කටු වෙදකම n (kaṭu wedakama)
• Slovak: akupunktúra (sk) f
• Slovene: akupunktura f
• Spanish: acupuntura (es) f
• Swedish: akupunktur (sv) c
• Tagalog: akupungktura
• Tamil: குத்தூசி மருத்துவம் (kuttūci maruttuvam)
• Telugu: ఆక్యుపంక్చర్ (ākyupaṅkcar)
• Thai: การฝังเข็ม (th) (gaan-fǎng-kěm), ฝังเข็ม (th) (fǎng-kěm)
• Turkish: akupunktur (tr)
• Ukrainian: акупункту́ра f (akupunktúra)
• Uzbek: akupunktura (uz)
• Vietnamese: châm cứu
• Welsh: aciwbigo m

Verb

acupuncture (third-person singular simple present acupunctures, present participle acupuncturing, simple past and past participle acupunctured)

1. (transitive) To treat with acupuncture.

Translations

to treat with acupuncture

• Finnish: hoitaa akupunktiolla, antaa akupunktiohoitoa
• Portuguese: acupunturar (pt)
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• Russian: де́лать иглоука́лывание n (délatʹ igloukályvanije), де́лать акупункту́ру f (délatʹ akupunktúru)

See also

• acupressure (noun)

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French

Alternative forms

• acuponcture (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ky.pɔ̃k.tyʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

acupuncture f (plural acupunctures)

1. acupuncture

Descendants

• → Turkish: akupunktur

Further reading

• “acupuncture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.