emergency

English

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Etymology

From Medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergens, present participle of emergo, equivalent to emerge +‎ -ency.

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 risk and which requires urgent attention.

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

2. (US, Canada, often attributive) The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
3. An individual brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.
   • November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

     Van Gaal responded by replacing Adnan Januzaj with Carrick and, in fairness, the emergency centre-half did exceedingly well given that he has not played since May.

4. (archaic) The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.

Synonyms

• (hospital department): ER, casualty, emerg

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 anánki)

• 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: ^{(please verify)} urgență (ro) f, ^{(please verify)} 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

Derived terms

• emergency department
• emergency entrance
• emergency exit
• emergency room
• emergency ward
• emergency medical services
• state of emergency
• emergency response
• Emergency Medical Technician
• The Emergency

See also

• fire department
• police