emergency

English

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɝ.dʒən.si/
• Hyphenation: e‧mer‧gen‧cy
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)dʒənsi

Noun

emergency (plural emergencies)

1. A situation which poses an immediate threat to human life or health and requires urgent assistance.

Cardiac arrest is an emergency and if you find someone in cardiac arrest you should call 999 immediately.

1. (Canada, US, often attributive) The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
2. (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 m (Tawaari'), حالة الطوارئ f (Haalat al-Tawaari')
• Asturian: emerxencia f, urxencia f
• Bulgarian: спешен случай m (spešen slučaj)
• Catalan: emergència f, urgència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緊急事故, 紧急事故 (jǐnjí shìgù), 緊急情況, 紧急情况 (jǐnjí qíngkuàng), 急診 (zh), 急诊 (zh) (jízhěn) (medical)

• Czech: nouzová situace, nouze (cs)
• Dutch: nood (nl) m
• Finnish: hätä (fi), hätätilanne
• French: urgence (fr) f, crise (fr) f
• Galician: emerxencia 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 f (éktakti anágki)

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

emergency department

• Asturian: urxencia f
• Catalan: urgència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 急診室 (zh), 急诊室 (zh) (jízhěnshì), 急症室 (jízhèngshì)

• Czech: pohotovost f

• Finnish: teho-osasto
• French: urgences (fr) f pl
• Russian: реанимация (ru) f (reanimácija), отделение неотложной помощи n (otdelénije neotlóžnoj pómošči), неотложка (ru) f (neotlóžka) (colloquial)
• Swedish: akutmottagning (sv) c, akut (sv) c

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