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Etymology[edit]
From Old French farmacie (modern French pharmacie), from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Ancient Greek φαρμακεία (pharmakeía, “the use of drugs”), from φάρμακον (phármakon, “a drug, charm, enchantment”), from Ancient Greek φαρμακίς (pharmakís, “witch”).
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)
- Moroccan Arabic: بوتيكة f (butika) (old)
- Armenian: դեղատուն (hy) (dełatun)
- Assamese: ফাৰ্মাছী
- Asturian: botica f, farmacia f
- Azeri: əczaçılıq, eczane (az), farmasiya
- 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: 藥房 (zh), 药房 (zh) (yàofáng), 藥店 (zh), 药店 (zh) (yàodiàn)
- Classical Nahuatl: pahcalli
- Czech: lékárna (cs) f
- Danish: apotek (da) n
- Dutch: apotheek (nl) m, f
- Esperanto: apoteko
- Estonian: apteek, rohupood
- Faroese: apotek n
- Finnish: apteekki (fi)
- French: pharmacie (fr) f
- Galician: farmacia (gl) f, botica f
- Georgian: აფთიაქი (aptiaki)
- German: Apotheke (de) f
- Greek: φαρμακείο (el) n (farmakeío)
- Greenlandic: nakorsaataarniarfik
- Haitian Creole: fanmasi
- Hebrew: בֵּית מִרְקַחַת (he) m (beyt mikakhat)
- 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
- Italian: farmacia (it) f
- Japanese: 薬局 (やっきょく, yakkyoku), 薬屋 (くすりや, kusuriya)
- Kalmyk: эмин саң (emin sañ)
- Kazakh: дәріхана (kk) (därixana)
- Khmer: ផ្ទះលក់ថ្នាំពេទ្យ (pteah lʊək tnam pɛɛt), ឱសថស្ថាន (aosotstʰaan), ផ្ទះលក់ថ្នាំ (pteah lʊək tnam), ហាងលក់ថ្នាំ (haang lʊək tnam), ហ្វាម៉ាស៊ី (faamaasi)
- 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
- Mongolian: эм зүй (em züj), эмийн сан (emijn san)
- Norman: apotiqu'sie f
- Norwegian: apotek (no) n
- 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
- 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
- Spanish: farmacia (es) f, botica (es) f
- Swedish: apotek (sv)
- Tajik: дорухона (doruxona)
- Tatar: даруханә (daruxanä)
- Thai: ร้านขายยา (ráan-kǎai-yaa)
- 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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