English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) + -ist. Doublet of pharmacian.
Pronunciation[edit]
pharmacist (plural pharmacists)
- (pharmacy) A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.
- (pharmacy, academic) One who studies pharmacy.
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Translations[edit]
professional who dispenses prescription drugs
- Afrikaans: apteker (af)
- Arabic: صَيْدَلِيّ m (ṣaydaliyy), صَيْدَلَانِيّ (ṣaydalāniyy)
- Armenian: դեղագործ (hy) (dełagorc)
- Belarusian: аптэ́кар m (aptékar), аптэ́карка f (aptékarka), фармацэ́ўт m (farmacéŭt)
- Bulgarian: фармаце́вт m (farmacévt), аптекар (bg) m (aptekar)
- Catalan: farmacèutic (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 藥劑師 (zh), 药剂师 (zh) (yàojìshī), 藥師 (zh), 藥師 (zh) (yàoshī)
- Czech: lékárník (cs) m, farmaceut (cs) m
- Danish: apoteker (da) c, farmaceut (da) c, farmakonom (da) c
- Dutch: apotheker (nl) m, apothekeres (nl) f
- Finnish: apteekkari (fi), proviisori (fi), farmaseutti (fi)
- French: pharmacien (fr) m, pharmacienne (fr) f, apothicaire (fr) (obsolete)
- Galician: farmacéutico (gl) m
- Georgian: ფარმაცევტი (parmacevṭi)
- German: Apotheker (de) m, Apothekerin (de) f
- Greek: φαρμακοποιός (el) m (farmakopoiós)
- Ancient: φαρμακοπώλης m (pharmakopṓlēs)
- Hebrew: רוקח (he) (rokeiach)
- Hungarian: patikus (hu), gyógyszertári eladó
- Icelandic: apótekari m, lyfsali m
- Indonesian: apoteker (id), farmasis
- Irish: poitigéir m, cógaiseoir m
- Italian: farmacista (it) m or f
- Japanese: 薬剤師 (ja) (やくざいし, yakuzaishi)
- Khmer: ឱសថការី m (aosɑt kaarəy), ឱសថការិនី f (aosɑt kaare’nəy)
- Korean: 약사 (ko) (yaksa)
- Latin: pharmacopola
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: vaistininkas (lt) m, vaistininkė f
- Macedonian: аптека́р m (aptekár), фармаце́вт m (farmacévt)
- Maltese: spiżjar m
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: azeeʼ baa nahaniihí
- Norman: apotitchi m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: farmasøyt m, apoteker (no) m
- Nynorsk: apotekar m, farmasøyt m
- Persian: داروساز (fa) (dârusâz), داروگر (fa) (dârugar) (archaic)
- Polish: aptekarz (pl) m, aptekarka (pl) f
- Portuguese: farmacêutico (pt) m
- Romanian: farmacist (ro) m, farmacistă (ro) f
- Russian: фармаце́вт (ru) m (farmacévt), апте́карь (ru) m (aptékarʹ), апте́карша (ru) f (aptékarša)
- Scots: pottinger (obsolete)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: апотекар m
- Roman: apotekar (sh) m
- Slovak: lekárnik m, farmaceut m
- Slovene: lekarnar m, lekarnarka f
- Spanish: farmacéutico (es) m, farmacéutica (es) f, boticario (es) m
- Swahili: mfamasia
- Swedish: apotekare (sv) c
- Thai: เภสัชกร (th) (pee-sàt-chá-gɔɔn)
- Turkish: eczacı (tr)
- Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎖𐎈 (rqḥ)
- Ukrainian: апте́кар (uk) m (aptékar), апте́карка (uk) f (aptékarka)
- Vietnamese: dược sĩ (vi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) pötekan (vo), (♂) hipötekan, (♀) jipötekan (vo), (♂♀) drogan (vo), (♂) hidrogan, (♀) jidrogan
- Welsh: fferyllydd (cy) m or f
- West Frisian: apoteker m
- Yiddish: אַפּטייקער m (apteyker), אַפּטייקערין f (apteykerin)
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