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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English pharmacy, borrowed from Middle French pharmacie, from Old French farmacie, from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Ancient Greek φαρμακεία (pharmakeía, “the use of drugs”), from φάρμακον (phármakon, “a drug, charm, enchantment”), of uncertain but likely Pre-Greek origin.
Attested since late 14th century.
Pronunciation[edit]
pharmacy (countable and uncountable, plural pharmacies)
- (countable) A place where prescription drugs are dispensed; a dispensary.
- (uncountable) The science of medicinal substances comprising pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry and forensics.
- (uncountable) The occupation of a pharmacist.
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Translations[edit]
a place where prescription drugs are dispensed
- Albanian: barnatore (sq) f
- Arabic: صَيْدَلِيَّة f (ṣaydaliyya), فَارْمَسِي m (fārmasī)
- Egyptian Arabic: اجزخانه f (agzaḵāna) (old-fashioned)
- Moroccan Arabic: فارمسيان m (farmasyān), صيدلية f (ṣaydaliya)
- Armenian: դեղատուն (hy) (dełatun)
- Assamese: ফাৰ্মাছী (pharmasi)
- Asturian: botica f, farmacia f
- Azerbaijani: aptek (az)
- Bashkir: дарыухана (darïwxana)
- Belarusian: аптэ́ка f (aptéka)
- Bengali: ফার্মেসি (bn) (pharmesi)
- Bulgarian: апте́ка (bg) f (aptéka), дроге́рия f (drogérija)
- Burmese: ဆေးဆိုင် (my) (hce:hcuing)
- Catalan: farmàcia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 藥店 (zh), 药店 (zh) (yàodiàn), 藥房 (zh), 药房 (zh) (yàofáng), 藥局 (zh), 药局 (zh) (yàojú)
- Chukchi: маԓявэчгыран (maḷjavėčgyran)
- Classical Nahuatl: pahcalli
- Czech: lékárna (cs) f
- Danish: apotek (da) n
- Dutch: apotheek (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: apoteko (eo)
- Estonian: apteek (et), rohupood
- Faroese: apotek n
- Finnish: apteekki (fi)
- French: pharmacie (fr) f
- Galician: farmacia (gl) f, botica f
- Georgian: აფთიაქი (aptiaki)
- German: Apotheke (de) f, Drogerie (de) f
- Alemannic German: Abodég f
- Greek: φαρμακείο (el) n (farmakeío)
- Greenlandic: nakorsaataarniarfik
- Haitian Creole: fanmasi
- Hebrew: בֵּית מִרְקַחַת (he) m (beyt mirkakhat)
- Hindi: दवाख़ाना m (davāxānā), फ़ार्मेसी f (fārmesī)
- Hungarian: gyógyszertár (hu), patika (hu)
- Icelandic: apótek (is) n, lyfjabúð (is) f
- Indonesian: farmasi (id), apotek (id)
- Irish: cógaslann f, siopa poitigéara m
- Italian: farmacia (it) f
- Japanese: 薬局 (ja) (やっきょく, yakkyoku), 薬屋 (くすりや, kusuriya)
- Kalmyk: эмин саң (emin sañ)
- Kazakh: дәріхана (kk) (därixana)
- Khmer: ឱសថស្ថាន (ʼaosɑɑthɑɑsthaan), ផ្ទះលក់ថ្នាំ (phtĕəh lŭək thnam), ហាងលក់ថ្នាំ (haang lŭək thnam), ហ្វាម៉ាស៊ី (faamaasii), ភេសជ្ជាគារ (pheisacciəkiə)
- Korean: 약국 (ko) (yakguk) (藥局 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: dermanxane (ku), eczaxane (ku), îlacxane (ku)
- Sorani: دەرمانخانە (dermanxane), ئەجزاخانە (eczaxane)
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- Kyrgyz: аптека (ky) (apteka), дарыкана (ky) (darıkana)
- Lao: ຮ້ານຂາຍຢາ (hān khāi yā), ຮ້ານຂາຽຢາ (hān khāi yā)
- Latvian: aptieka f
- Lithuanian: vaistinė (lt) f
- Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon: apoteek f, apotheek (nds) f
- German Low German: Aptheek (nds) f, Aftheek (nds) f, Apteek (nds) f
- Luxembourgish: Apdikt (lb) f
- Macedonian: апте́ка f (aptéka)
- Malay: farmasi, kedai ubat, rumah ubat, apotek
- Maltese: spiżerija
- Maori: whare rongoā
- Mongolian: эм зүй (em züj), эмийн сан (emijn san)
- Norman: apotiqu'sie f
- Norwegian: apotek (no) n
- Occitan: farmacia (oc) f
- Ojibwe: mashkikii-adaawewigamig
- Pashto: دواخانه (ps) f (dawāxāná), درملتون (ps) m (darmaltún), دوافروش m (dawāfaróš)
- Persian: داروخانه (fa) (dâru-xâne)
- Polish: apteka (pl) f
- Portuguese: farmácia (pt) f, drogaria (pt) f
- Quechua: jampiy ranqhana wasi
- Romanian: farmacie (ro) f
- Russian: апте́ка (ru) f (aptéka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: апотека f
- Roman: apoteka (sh) f
- Sinhalese: ඔසුහල (osuhala)
- Slovak: lekáreň f
- Slovene: lekarna (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: aptejka f, drogerija f
- Spanish: farmacia (es) f, botica (es) f, droguería (es)
- Swedish: apotek (sv)
- Tajik: дорухона (doruxona)
- Tatar: даруханә (daruxanä)
- Thai: ร้านขายยา (ráan-kǎai-yaa)
- Tibetan: སྨན་ཚོང་ཁང (sman tshong khang)
- Turkish: eczane (tr)
- Turkmen: daruxanä, dermanhana, apteka
- Ukrainian: апте́ка (uk) f (aptéka)
- Urdu: فارمیسی f (fārmesī), دواخانہ m (davāxānā)
- Uyghur: دوراخانا (doraxana), دورىخانا (dorixana)
- Uzbek: apteka (uz), dorixona (uz)
- Vietnamese: dược khoa, khoa bào chế, nhà thuốc
- Walloon: farmaçreye (wa) f, apoticårreye (wa) f (old)
- West Frisian: apoteek
- Yiddish: אַפּטייק f (apteyk)
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science of medicinal substances
occupation of a pharmacist
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