folk medicine

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌfəʊk ˈmɛd(ɪ)s(ɪ)n/
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• General-American: /ˌfoʊk ˈmɛdəs(ə)n/
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From folk (“believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous”) + medicine.

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Amharic: ባሕላዊ መድኃኒት (baḥlawi mädḫanit) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Arabic: طب تقليدي — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Assamese: লোকচিকিৎসা (lüksikitxa) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Asturian: medicina tradicional — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Azerbaijani: xalq təbabəti — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Basque: medikuntza tradizional — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Belarusian: народная медыцына (naródnaja mjedycyna) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Bengali: ঐতিহ্যবাহী চিকিৎসাবিজ্ঞান (ōitijjhobahi cikitśabiggên) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Bulgarian: традиционна медицина (tradicionna medicina) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Catalan: medicina tradicional — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Chinese Mandarin: 传统医学 (chuántǒng yīxué) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Danish: folkemedicin — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Dutch: volksgeneeskunde — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Esperanto: popolmedicino — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Estonian: rahvameditsiin — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Finnish: kansanparannus — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Finnish: kansanlääkintä — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• French: médecine traditionnelle — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Galician: medicina tradicional — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• German: Volksmedizin — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Hausa: maganin gargajiya — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Hebrew: רפואה מסורתית — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Hindi: पारम्परिक चिकित्सा (pāramparik cikitsā) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Hungarian: népi gyógyászat — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Indonesian: obat tradisional — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Ingush: халкъа лорал (xalqʼa loral) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Italian: medicina popolare — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Japanese: 伝統医学 — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Kannada: ಜನಪದ ವೈದ್ಯ (janapada vaidya) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Korean: 전통의학 (jeontong'uihak) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Central Kurdish: پزیشکی کۆن (pzîşkî kon) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Kyrgyz: элдик медицина (eldik meditsina) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Lithuanian: liaudies medicina — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Malagasy: fitsaboana nentim-paharazana — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Malay: perubatan tradisional — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Malayalam: നാട്ടുവൈദ്യം (nāṭṭuvaidyaṁ) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Norwegian Bokmål: folkemedisin — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Norwegian Nynorsk: folkemedisin — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Persian: طب سنتی — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Polish: medycyna tradycyjna — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Polish: medycyna ludowa — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Portuguese: medicina tradicional — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Punjabi: ਰਵਾਇਤੀ ਦਵਾਈਆਂ (ravāitī davāīā̃) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Punjabi: روایتی دوائیاں — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Romanian: medicină populară — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Russian: наро́дная медици́на (naródnaja medicína) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Serbo-Croatian: tradicijska medicina — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Sinhalese: සාම්ප්රදායික වෛද්යක්රම (sāmpradāyika waidyakrama) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Slovak: ľudové liečiteľstvo — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Slovene: tradicionalna medicina — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Spanish: medicina tradicional — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Turkish: geleneksel tıp — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Ukrainian: народна медицина (narodna medycyna) — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Uzbek: xalq tabobati — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Vietnamese: y học cổ truyền — traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians
• Finnish: perinnelääke — particular medicinal remedy used in such traditional medical practices
• Polish: zioło — particular medicinal remedy used in such traditional medical practices
• Portuguese: mezinha — particular medicinal remedy used in such traditional medical practices
• Portuguese: mitombo — particular medicinal remedy used in such traditional medical practices