ambulance

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• /ˈæm.bjəˌlæns/ African-American Vernacular, also Southern US
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Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).

186 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: ambulans — emergency vehicle
• Albanian: autoambulancë — emergency vehicle
• Arabic: سَيَّارَة إِسْعَاف (sayyārat ʔisʕāf) — emergency vehicle
• Arabic: إسعاف (ʔisʕāf) — emergency vehicle
• Arabic: سيارة إسعاف (sayyārat ʔisʕāf) — emergency vehicle
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܪܲܕܵܝܬܵܐ ܕܟܪ̈ܝܼܗܹܐ (rādayta d-krīhe) — emergency vehicle
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܡܒܘܼܠܵܢܣ (āmbulans) — emergency vehicle
• Armenian: շտապօգնության մեքենա (štapōgnutʻyan mekʻena) — emergency vehicle
• Armenian: շտապօգնություն (štapōgnutʻyun) — emergency vehicle
• Assamese: এম্বুলেঞ্চ (embuleñs) — emergency vehicle
• Asturian: ambulancia — emergency vehicle
• Azerbaijani: təcili yardım — emergency vehicle
• Azerbaijani: tibbi yardım maşını — emergency vehicle
• Azerbaijani: təcili tibbi yardım — emergency vehicle
• Basque: anbulantzia — emergency vehicle
• Belarusian: ху́ткая дапамо́га (xútkaja dapamóha) — emergency vehicle
• Belarusian: ху́ткая (xútkaja) — emergency vehicle
• Bengali: অ্যাম্বুলেন্স (êmbulenśo) — emergency vehicle
• Bulgarian: лине́йка (linéjka) — emergency vehicle
• Bulgarian: бъ́рза по́мощ (bǎ́rza pómošt) — emergency vehicle
• Burmese: လူနာတင်ကား (lunatangka:) — emergency vehicle
• Burmese: သူနာတင်ကား (sunatangka:) — emergency vehicle
• Catalan: ambulància — emergency vehicle
• Chichewa: ambulansi class 9/6 — emergency vehicle
• Chichewa: gálímoto class 9/6 — emergency vehicle
• Chinese Cantonese: 救傷車 /救伤车 (gau3 soeng1 ce1) — emergency vehicle
• Chinese Cantonese: 白車 /白车 (baak6 ce1) — emergency vehicle
• Chinese Cantonese: 救護車 /救护车 (gau3 wu6 ce1) — emergency vehicle
• Chinese Cantonese: 十字車 /十字车 (sap6 zi6 ce1) — emergency vehicle
• Chinese: 救護車 /救护车 (zh-min-nan) — emergency vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 救護車 /救护车 (jiùhùchē) — emergency vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 救生車 /救生车 (jiùshēngchē) — emergency vehicle
• Wu Chinese: 救護車 /救护车 — emergency vehicle
• Cornish: ambulans — emergency vehicle
• Czech: sanitka — emergency vehicle
• Czech: ambulance — emergency vehicle
• Czech: sanitní vůz — emergency vehicle
• Czech: sanitní vozidlo — emergency vehicle
• Czech: sanita — emergency vehicle
• Czech: záchranka — emergency vehicle
• Danish: ambulance — emergency vehicle
• Central Dusun: ambulan — emergency vehicle
• Dutch: ziekenwagen — emergency vehicle
• Dutch: ambulance — emergency vehicle
• Dutch: ziekenauto — emergency vehicle
• Esperanto: ambulanco — emergency vehicle
• Estonian: kiirabi — emergency vehicle
• Estonian: kiirabiauto — emergency vehicle
• Finnish: ambulanssi — emergency vehicle
• Finnish: sairaankuljetusauto — emergency vehicle
• Finnish: sairasauto — emergency vehicle
• Finnish: lanssi — emergency vehicle
• French: ambulance — emergency vehicle
• Galician: ambulancia — emergency vehicle
• Georgian: სანიტარული ავტომანქანა (saniṭaruli avṭomankana) — emergency vehicle
• German: Ambulanz — emergency vehicle
• German: Krankenwagen — emergency vehicle
• German: Notarztwagen — emergency vehicle
• German: Rettung — emergency vehicle
• German: Rettungsauto — emergency vehicle
• German: Rettungswagen — emergency vehicle
• German: Sanitätswagen — emergency vehicle
• German: Sanka — emergency vehicle
• Greek: ασθενοφόρο (asthenofóro) — emergency vehicle
• Hebrew: אַמְבּוּלַנְס (ámbulans) — emergency vehicle
• Hindi: एम्बुलेंस (embulens) — emergency vehicle
• Hindi: रोगी-वाहन (rogī-vāhan) — emergency vehicle
• Hungarian: mentőautó — emergency vehicle
• Hungarian: mentő — emergency vehicle
• Hungarian: rohamkocsi — emergency vehicle
• Icelandic: sjúkrabíll — emergency vehicle
• Icelandic: sjúkrabifreið — emergency vehicle
• Ido: ambulanco — emergency vehicle
• Indonesian: ambulans — emergency vehicle
• Indonesian: mobil darurat — emergency vehicle
• Interlingua: ambulantia — emergency vehicle
• Irish: otharcharr — emergency vehicle
• Italian: ambulanza — emergency vehicle
• Japanese: 救急車 (kyūkyūsha) — emergency vehicle
• Kazakh: жедел жәрдем (jedel järdem) — emergency vehicle
• Khmer: រថយន្តសង្គ្រោះ (rŭət yŭən sɑɑsɑngkrŭəh) — emergency vehicle
• Khmer: អំប៊ូឡង់ស៍ (ʼɑmbuulɑng) — emergency vehicle
• Korean: 앰뷸런스 (aembyulleonseu) — emergency vehicle
• Korean: 구급차 (gugeupcha) — emergency vehicle
• Northern Kurdish: ambûlans — emergency vehicle
• Kyrgyz: тез жардам (tez jardam) — emergency vehicle
• Ladino: אמבולאנסייה — emergency vehicle
• Ladino: אמבולאנסה — emergency vehicle
• Ladino: ambulansia — emergency vehicle
• Ladino: ambulansa — emergency vehicle
• Lao: ລົດສຸກເສີນ (lot suk sœ̄n) — emergency vehicle
• Lao: ລົດພະຍາບານ (lot pha nyā bān) — emergency vehicle
• Lao: ລົດໂຮງຫມໍ (lot hōng mǭ) — emergency vehicle
• Latin: arcera — emergency vehicle
• Latvian: ātrās palīdzības mašīna — emergency vehicle
• Latvian: ātrā palīdzība — emergency vehicle
• Lithuanian: greitosios pagalbos automobilis — emergency vehicle
• Lithuanian: greitoji — emergency vehicle
• Macedonian: амбу́лантна ко́ла (ambúlantna kóla) — emergency vehicle
• Macedonian: бр́за по́мош (bŕza pómoš) — emergency vehicle
• Malay: ambulans — emergency vehicle
• Malay: kereta sakit — emergency vehicle
• Malayalam: ആംബുലൻസ് (āmbulaṉsŭ) — emergency vehicle
• Māori: waka tūroro — emergency vehicle
• Marathi: रुग्णवाहिका (rugṇavāhikā) — emergency vehicle
• Mongolian: хээрийн эмнэлэг (xeeriin emneleg) — emergency vehicle
• Mongolian: түргэн тусламжийн тэрэг (türgen tuslamžiin tereg) — emergency vehicle
• Navajo: diné atítʼįįhgo bee naagéhé — emergency vehicle
• Nepali: यम्बुलेन्स (yambulensa) — emergency vehicle
• Norman: ambulance — emergency vehicle
• Norwegian Bokmål: ambulanse — emergency vehicle
• Norwegian Bokmål: sykebil — emergency vehicle
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjukebil — emergency vehicle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ambulanse — emergency vehicle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjukebil — emergency vehicle
• Ojibwe: aakoziiwidaabaan — emergency vehicle
• Pashto: امبولانس (ambulāns) — emergency vehicle
• Pashto: ژغورګاډی (žorgāḍay) — emergency vehicle
• Dari: اَمْبُولَانْس (ambūlāns) — emergency vehicle
• Iranian Persian: آمْبولانْس (âmbulâns) — emergency vehicle
• Iranian Persian: بیمارِسْتانِ سَیَّار (bimârestân-e sayyâr) — emergency vehicle
• Pohnpeian: ampwulens — emergency vehicle
• Polish: ambulans — emergency vehicle
• Polish: karetka — emergency vehicle
• Portuguese: ambulância — emergency vehicle
• Romanian: ambulanță — emergency vehicle
• Russian: автомоби́ль ско́рой по́мощи (avtomobílʹ skóroj pómošči) — emergency vehicle
• Russian: ско́рая по́мощь (skóraja pómoščʹ) — emergency vehicle
• Russian: каре́та ско́рой по́мощи (karéta skóroj pómošči) — emergency vehicle
• Russian: санита́рная маши́на (sanitárnaja mašína) — emergency vehicle
• Russian: неотло́жка (neotlóžka) — emergency vehicle
• Russian: ско́рая (skóraja) — emergency vehicle
• Russian: каре́та (karéta) — emergency vehicle
• Scottish Gaelic: carbad-eiridinn — emergency vehicle
• Scottish Gaelic: ambaileans — emergency vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: хитна помоћ — emergency vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: болничарска кола — emergency vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: амбулантна кола — emergency vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: hitna pomoć — emergency vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: bolničarska kola — emergency vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: ambulantna kola — emergency vehicle
• Sinhalese: ගිලන් රථය (gilan rathaya) — emergency vehicle
• Sinhalese: ගිලන්රථය (gilanrathaya) — emergency vehicle
• Sinhalese: ගිලන්රිය (gilanriya) — emergency vehicle
• Slovak: sanitka — emergency vehicle
• Slovak: sanitné vozidlo — emergency vehicle
• Slovak: ambulancia — emergency vehicle
• Slovak: sanita — emergency vehicle
• Slovene: ambulanta — emergency vehicle
• Slovene: reševalni avto — emergency vehicle
• Slovene: reševalni avtomobil — emergency vehicle
• Slovene: reševalno vozilo — emergency vehicle
• Slovene: rešilec — emergency vehicle
• Slovene: rešilni avto — emergency vehicle
• Slovene: rešilni avtomobil — emergency vehicle
• Slovene: rešilno vozilo — emergency vehicle
• Spanish: ambulancia — emergency vehicle
• Swahili: ambyulensi — emergency vehicle
• Swahili: ambulensi — emergency vehicle
• Swedish: ambulans — emergency vehicle
• Tagalog: ambulansiya — emergency vehicle
• Tajik: ёрии таъчилӣ (yori-yi ta'čili) — emergency vehicle
• Tamil: நோயாளர் ஊர்தி (nōyāḷar ūrti) — emergency vehicle
• Tamil: ஆம்புலன்ஸ் (āmpulaṉs) — emergency vehicle
• Thai: รถพยาบาล (rót-pá-yaa-baan) — emergency vehicle
• Turkish: ambülans — emergency vehicle
• Turkish: cankurtaran — emergency vehicle
• Turkmen: tiz kömek — emergency vehicle
• Ukrainian: швидка́ допомо́га (švydká dopomóha) — emergency vehicle
• Ukrainian: швидка́ (švydká) — emergency vehicle
• Ulithian: ambelens — emergency vehicle
• Urdu: اَیمْبُولینْس (aimbūlens) — emergency vehicle
• Urdu: بِیمار گاڑی (bīmār gāṛī) — emergency vehicle
• Urdu: طِبی اِمْدادی گاڑی (tibī imdādī gāṛī) — emergency vehicle
• Uyghur: قۇتقۇزۇش ئاپتوموبىلى (qutquzush aptomobili) — emergency vehicle
• Uyghur: قۇتۇلدۇرۇش ماشىنىسى (qutuldurush mashinisi) — emergency vehicle
• Uzbek: tez yordam mashinasi — emergency vehicle
• Uzbek: tez yordam — emergency vehicle
• Vietnamese: xe cứu thương — emergency vehicle
• Vietnamese: xe cấp cứu — emergency vehicle
• Welsh: ambiwlans — emergency vehicle
• Yiddish: אַמבולאַנס (ambulans) — emergency vehicle
• Yoruba: áńbúláǹsì — emergency vehicle
• Yoruba: ọkọ̀ ìtọ́jú pàjáwìrì — emergency vehicle
• Yoruba: ọkọ̀ ìtọ́jú aláìsàn — emergency vehicle
• Yoruba: áḿbúláǹsì — emergency vehicle