nursing

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɝsɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɜːsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪŋ
• Hyphenation: nurs‧ing

Adjective

nursing (comparative more nursing, superlative most nursing)

1. In the state of suckling young, lactating.

   The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.

2. Referring to nurses.

   The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.

Translations

lactating

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 餵奶的／喂奶的 (zh) (wèinǎi de)

• Finnish: imettävä (fi)

referring to nurses

• Arabic: تَمْرِيض (tamrīḍ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 護理的／护理的 (zh) (hùlǐ de)

• Finnish: sairaanhoito- (fi), hoitava (fi)
• Russian: медсе́стринский (medséstrinskij), се́стринский (ru) (séstrinskij)

Noun

nursing (countable and uncountable, plural nursings)

2. Suckling, such as breastfeeding.
4. The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.

   She went into nursing as a career.

   • 1871, Florence Nightingale, Una and the Lion, page 6:

     Nursing is an art; and, if it is to be made an art, requires as exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; […]

Translations

breastfeeding — see breastfeeding

caring for patients

• Arabic: تَمْرِيض m (tamrīḍ)
• Catalan: infermeria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 護理／护理 (zh) (hùlǐ), 護理學／护理学 (zh) (hùlǐxué), 看護／看护 (zh) (kānhù)

• Dutch: verpleging (nl) f
• Esperanto: flegado
• Finnish: sairaanhoitoala, sairaanhoito (fi)
• Galician: enfermaría (gl) f
• Hindi: परिचर्या (hi) f (paricaryā)
• Irish: altranas m, banaltracht f
• Japanese: 看護 (ja) (か​んご, kango)
• Korean: 간호 (ko) (ganho)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sykepleie m or f, sjukepleie m or f

  Nynorsk: sjukepleie f

• Persian: پرستاری (fa) (parastâri)
• Polish: pielęgniarstwo (pl)
• Russian: медсе́стринское де́ло n (medséstrinskoje délo), се́стринское де́ло (séstrinskoje délo), ухо́д (ru) m (uxód)
• Scottish Gaelic: eiridinn m, altram m
• Spanish: enfermería (es) f

Verb

nursing

1. present participle and gerund of nurse

   The mother sat there nursing her baby.

Derived terms

• barrier nursing
• nursing bottle
• nursing bra
• nursing chair
• nursing father
• nursing home
• nursing informatics
• nursing pad

 

Anagrams

• unrings, urnings

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English nursing.

Noun

nursing n (uncountable)

1. nursing

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	nursing	nursingul
genitive-dative	nursing	nursingului
vocative	nursingule