emergency

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emergency (disambiguation) and emergency

Borrowed from Medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergens, present participle of emergo, equivalent to emergent +‎ -cy or emerge +‎ -ency.

emergency (plural emergencies)

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.
The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
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.
(archaic) The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.

situation requiring urgent assistance

Arabic: طَوَارِئ‎ m (ṭawāriʾ), حَالَةْ اَلطَّوَارِئ‎ f (ḥālat aṭ-ṭawāriʾ)
Asturian: emerxencia f, urxencia f
Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: спешен случай m (spešen slučaj)
Catalan: emergència (ca) 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)
Danish: nødstilfælde n, nødsituation (da) c
Dutch: nood (nl) m, noodgeval (nl) n, spoedgeval (nl) n
Esperanto: krizo
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: מַצַּב חֵרוּם‎ (he) (matzáv ḥerúm)
Hindi: आपातकाल m (āpātkāl)
Hungarian: vészhelyzet (hu), szükséghelyzet, (as an adjective) vész- (hu), szükség- (hu), rendkívüli (hu)
Icelandic: neyðarástand n

Indonesian: darurat (id)
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)
Kazakh: төтенше жағдай (tötenşe jağday)
Korean: 비상 사태 (bisang satae) (非常事態)
Kurdish: lezgîn‎ (ku) (lezgîn)
Latin: subitum n
Malay: kecemasan
Maori: ohotata
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Northern Sami: heahtedilli
Persian: اضطراری‎ (fa) (ezterâri), فوریت‎ (fa) (foruriyat)
Portuguese: emergência (pt) f, urgência (pt) f
Romanian: urgență (ro) f
Russian: чрезвыча́йное положе́ние n (črezvyčájnoje položénije), э́кстренная ситуа́ция f (ékstrennaja situácija), чрезвыча́йное происше́ствие n (črezvyčájnoje proisšéstvije), ч. п. n (č. p.)
Scottish Gaelic: èiginn f
Slovak: núdzová situácia f
Spanish: emergencia (es) f, urgencia (es) f
Swedish: nöd (sv) c, nödläge (sv) n, nödsituation (sv) c, nödfall n
Turkish: acil durum
Ukrainian: надзвича́йна ситуа́ція (nadzvyčájna sytuácija), аварі́йна ситуа́ція (avaríjna sytuácija), е́кстрена ситуа́ція (ékstrena sytuácija)

emergency department — See also translations at emergency room

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