psychiatry

English

Etymology

[1846] From French psychiatrie, from Medieval Latin psychiatria. Surface etymology is psych- +‎ -iatry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪˈkaɪ.əˌtɹi/

Noun

psychiatry (usually uncountable, plural psychiatries)

1. (medicine) The branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental disorders and behavioural conditions.

Derived terms

• psychiatric
• psychiatrist

Translations

branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders

• Adyghe: психиатрие f (psixiatrije)
• Arabic: الطِّبّ النَّفْسِيّ (aṭ-ṭibb an-nafsiyy)
• Armenian: հոգեբուժություն (hy) (hogebužutʻyun)
• Bashkir: психиатрия f (psixiatriya)
• Belarusian: псіхіятры́я f (psixijatrýja)
• Burmese: စိတ်ရောဂါပညာ (citrau:gapa.nya)
• Catalan: psiquiatria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 精神病學／精神病学 (zing¹ san⁴ beng⁶ hok⁶), 精神病学 (zing¹san⁴beng⁶hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 精神病學／精神病学 (zh) (jīngshénbìngxué), 精神病学 (zh) (jīngshénbìngxué)

  Min Nan: cheng-sîn-i-ha̍k

• Czech: psychiatrie (cs) f
• Dutch: psychiatrie (nl) f
• Esperanto: psikiatrio
• Estonian: psühhiaatria
• Finnish: psykiatria (fi)
• French: psychiatrie (fr) f
• Galician: psiquiatría (gl)
• Georgian: ფსიქიატრია (psikiaṭria)
• German: Psychiatrie (de) f, Seelenheilkunde f
• Greek: ψυχιατρική (el) f (psychiatrikí)
• Hebrew: פְּסִיכִיאַטְרְיָה (he) (psikhi'atr'yá)
• Hungarian: pszichiátria (hu)
• Ido: psikiatrio (io)
• Irish: síciatracht
• Italian: psichiatria (it)
• Japanese: 精神医学 (せいしんいがく, seishingaku)
• Kannada: ಮನೋವೈದ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (manōvaidyaśāstra)
• Korean: 정신의학 (jeongsinuihak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەروونپزیشکی (derûnpzîşkî)

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• Kyrgyz: психиатрия (psihiatriya)
• Latvian: psihiatrija f
• Maori: mātai mate hinengaro
• Mazanderani: روان پزشکی
• Mongolian: психиатри (psixiatri)
• Nepali: मनोरोग विज्ञान (manorog vigyāna)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: psykiatri m

  Nynorsk: psykiatri m

• Persian: روانپزشکی (fa) (ravan-pezeshki)
• Polish: psychiatria (pl) f
• Portuguese: psiquiatria (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਾਈਕੈਟਰੀ (sāīkaiṭrī)
• Romanian: psihiatrie (ro) f
• Russian: психиатри́я (ru) f (psixiatríja)
• Scottish Gaelic: leigheas-inntinn m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: психијатрија f

  Roman: psihijàtrija (sh) f

• Spanish: psiquiatría (es) f
• Swedish: psykiatri (sv) c
• Tatar: психиатрия f (psixiatriyä)
• Telugu: మనోరోగచికిత్స (manōrōgacikitsa)
• Thai: จิตเวชศาสตร์ (jìtwêetsàat)
• Turkish: psikiyatri (tr)
• Ukrainian: психіатрі́я (psyxiatríja)
• Volapük: lanivestig, lienetisanav
• Yiddish: פּסיכיאַטריע (psikhyatrye)

See also

• psychopathology