patient

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• /ˈpeɪ̯ʃənt/
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• [ˈpheɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈpheɪ̯ʃn̩t]
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈpɛjʃənt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈpæɪ̯ʃənt/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: [ˈphæ̝ɪ̯ʃənt] ~ [ˈphæ̝ɪ̯ʃn̩t]
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• rhymes with -eɪʃənt
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• CMU ARPABET: P EY1 SH AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh1- (“to hate, hurt”).

276 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صَبُور (ṣabūr) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Arabic: صبور (ṣabūr) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Armenian: համբերատար (hamberatar) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Belarusian: цярплі́вы (cjarplívy) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Bulgarian: търпели́в (tǎrpelív) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Catalan: pacient — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Chinese Mandarin: 耐心 (nàixīn) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Chinese Mandarin: 耐煩 /耐烦 (nàifán) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Crimean Tatar: sabırlı — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Crimean Tatar: dayanıqlı — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Crimean Tatar: çıdamlı — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Czech: trpělivý — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Danish: tålmodig — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Dutch: geduldig — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Esperanto: pacienca — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Finnish: kärsivällinen — not losing one's temper while waiting
• French: patient — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Galician: paciente — not losing one's temper while waiting
• German: geduldig — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Greek: υπομονετικός (ypomonetikós) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Ancient Greek: μακρόθυμος (makróthumos) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Haitian Creole: pasyan — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Hebrew: סַבְלָנִי (savlaní) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Hindi: सहनशील (sahanśīl) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Hungarian: türelmes — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Icelandic: þolinmóður — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Indonesian: sabar — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Italian: paziente — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Japanese: 忍耐強い (nintaizuyoi) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Japanese: 我慢強い (gamanzuyoi) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Japanese: 気が長い (ki ga nagai) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Japanese: 辛抱強い (shinbōzuyoi) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Kazakh: сабырлы (sabyrly) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Kazakh: төзімді (tözımdı) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Kazakh: шыдамды (şydamdy) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Korean: 참을성 있는 (chameulseong inneun) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Korean: 인내심 있는 (innaesim inneun) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Korean: 끈기 있는 (kkeun'gi inneun) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Latin: patiēns — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Luxembourgish: gedëlleg — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Macedonian: трпелив (trpeliv) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Malay: sabar — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Māori: mānawanawa — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Māori: manawanui — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Māori: manawarahi — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Middle English: pacient — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Norman: pâcient — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Norwegian Bokmål: tålmodig — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Norwegian Bokmål: tålsom — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tolmodig — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tolsam — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tolug — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Old English: ġeþyldiġ — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Persian: صبور (sabur) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Persian: شکیبنده (šekibande) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Persian: شکیبا (šekibâ) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Persian: بردبار (bordbâr) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Polish: cierpliwy — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Portuguese: paciente — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Romanian: răbdător — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Russian: терпели́вый (terpelívyj) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Serbo-Croatian: стрпљив — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Serbo-Croatian: strpljiv — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Slovak: trpezlivý — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Slovene: potrpežljiv — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Spanish: paciente — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Spanish: pacienzudo — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Swedish: tålmodig — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Tajik: собир (sobir) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Tajik: босабр (bosabr) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Turkish: sabırlı — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Turkish: dayançlı — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Ottoman Turkish: صبور (sabûr) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Ottoman Turkish: صبرلی (sabrlı) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Ukrainian: терпля́чий (terpljáčyj) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Ukrainian: терпели́вий (terpelývyj) — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Uzbek: sabrli — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Vietnamese: kiên nhẫn — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Volapük: sufälik — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Walloon: pacyin — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Welsh: amyneddgar — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Zazaki: sebırın — not losing one's temper while waiting
• Bulgarian: настойчив (nastojčiv) — constant in pursuit
• Finnish: pitkämielinen — constant in pursuit
• Hungarian: kitartó — constant in pursuit
• Hungarian: állhatatos — constant in pursuit
• Middle English: pacient — constant in pursuit
• Slovak: trpezlivý — constant in pursuit
• Afrikaans: pasiënt — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Afrikaans: siek — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Afrikaans: geduldig — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Albanian: pacient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Southern Altai: оору (ooru) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Southern Altai: оору кижи (ooru kiži) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Arabic: مَرِيض (marīḍ) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Arabic: مَرِيضَة (marīḍa) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Armenian: հիվանդ (hivand) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Armenian: պացիենտ (pacʻient) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Armenian: բուժառու (bužaṙu) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Azerbaijani: xəstə — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Basque: eri — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Basque: gaixo — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Belarusian: пацые́нт (pacyjént) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Belarusian: пацые́нтка (pacyjéntka) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Belarusian: хво́ры (xvóry) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Belarusian: хво́рая (xvóraja) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Belarusian: спале́чнік (spaljéčnik) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Belarusian: спале́чніца (spaljéčnica) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Bengali: রোগী (rōgi) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Bulgarian: пацие́нт (paciént) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Bulgarian: пацие́нтка (paciéntka) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Bulgarian: бо́лен (bólen) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Bulgarian: бо́лна (bólna) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Burmese: လူနာ (luna) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Catalan: pacient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Cebuano: pasyente — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Chamicuro: ijchapyani — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Cherokee: ᎤᏢᎩ (utlvgi) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Chinese Mandarin: 病人 (bìngrén) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Chinese Mandarin: 患者 (huànzhě) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Chinese Mandarin: 病患 (bìnghuàn) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Czech: pacient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Czech: pacientka — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Czech: nemocný — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Czech: nemocná — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Danish: patient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Dutch: patiënt — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Dutch: patiënte — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Esperanto: paciento — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Esperanto: pacientino — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Estonian: patsient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Estonian: ravialune — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Faroese: sjúklingur — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Finnish: potilas — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• French: patient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• French: patiente — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• French: malade — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Middle French: patient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Old French: patient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Galician: doente — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Galician: paciente — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Georgian: პაციენტი (ṗacienṭi) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• German: Patient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• German: Patientin — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• German: Kranker — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• German: Kranke — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Greek: ασθενής (asthenís) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Hebrew: מטופל \ מְטֻפָּל (metupál) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Hebrew: פַּצְיֶנְט (patsyént) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Hindi: रोगी (rogī) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Hindi: मरीज़ (marīz) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Hindi: बीमार (bīmār) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Hungarian: beteg — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Hungarian: páciens — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Icelandic: sjúklingur — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Indonesian: pasien — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Ingrian: läsivä — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Irish: othar — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Italian: paziente — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Japanese: 患者 (kanja) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Japanese: 病人 (byōnin) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Kazakh: емделуші (emdeluşı) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Khmer: អ្នកជំងឺ (nĕək cumngɨɨ) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Khmer: រោគី (rookii) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Khmer: អាពាធិក (ʼaapiəthɨk) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Korean: 환자 (hwanja) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Korean: 병인 (byeong'in) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Northern Kurdish: nexweş — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Northern Kurdish: xeste — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Kyrgyz: пациент (patsiyent) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Kyrgyz: бейтап (beytap) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Kyrgyz: оору (ooru) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Lao: ຄົນເຈັບ (khon chep) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Lao: ຄົນໄຂ້ (khon khai) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Lao: ຄິລານະ (khi lā na) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Latvian: pacients — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Latvian: paciente — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Laz: ზაბუნი (zabuni) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Lingala: mokoni — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Lingala: mobeli — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Lithuanian: pacientas — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Lithuanian: pacientė — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Luxembourgish: Patient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Macedonian: пацие́нт (paciént) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Macedonian: пацие́нтка (paciéntka) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Macedonian: болен (bolen) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Macedonian: болна (bolna) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Malay: pesakit — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Malay: ڤساکيت — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Māori: tūroro — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Marathi: रुग्ण (rugṇa) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Marathi: रोगी (rogī) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Mongolian: өвчтөн (övčtön) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Mongolian: эмчлүүлэгч (emčlüülegč) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Mongolian: ᠡᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠲᠡᠨ (ebedčiten) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Mongolian: ᠡᠮᠴᠢᠯᠡᠭᠦᠯᠦᠭᠴᠢ (emčilegülügči) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Norwegian Bokmål: pasient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pasient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Occitan: pacient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Pashto: بيمار (bimãr) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Pashto: مريض (maríz) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Dari: مَرِیض (marīz) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Dari: بیمَار (bēmār) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Iranian Persian: مَریض (mariz) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Iranian Persian: بیمار (bimâr) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Polish: pacjent — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Polish: pacjentka — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Polish: chory — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Polish: chora — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Portuguese: paciente — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Romanian: pacient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Romanian: pacientă — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Russian: пацие́нт (paciént) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Russian: пацие́нтка (paciéntka) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Russian: больно́й (bolʹnój) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Russian: больна́я (bolʹnája) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Northern Sami: buohcci — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Serbo-Croatian: пацѝјент — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Serbo-Croatian: пацѝјентица — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Serbo-Croatian: пацѝјенткиња — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Serbo-Croatian: болѐснӣк — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Serbo-Croatian: болѐсница — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Serbo-Croatian: pacìjent — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Serbo-Croatian: pacìjentica — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Serbo-Croatian: pacìjentkinja — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Serbo-Croatian: bolèsnīk — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Serbo-Croatian: bolèsnica — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Slovak: pacient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Slovak: pacientka — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Slovak: chorý — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Slovak: chorá — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Slovene: bolnik — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Slovene: bolnica — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Slovene: pacient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Slovene: pacientka — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Sotho: mokudi — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Spanish: paciente — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Swedish: patient — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Tagalog: pasyente — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Tajik: мариз (mariz) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Tajik: бемор (bemor) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Tajik: касал (kasal) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Tamil: நோயாளி (nōyāḷi) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Telugu: రోగి (rōgi) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Telugu: వ్యాధిగ్రస్తుడు (vyādhigrastuḍu) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Thai: คนไข้ (kon-kâi) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Thai: ผู้ป่วย (pûu-bpùai) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Tibetan: ནད་པ (nad pa) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Turkish: hasta — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Turkmen: pasiýent — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Ukrainian: паціє́нт (pacijént) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Ukrainian: паціє́нтка (pacijéntka) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Ukrainian: хво́рий (xvóryj) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Ukrainian: хво́ра (xvóra) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Urdu: مَرِیض (marīz) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Urdu: بِیمار (bīmār) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Uyghur: بىمار (bimar) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Uyghur: كېسەل (kësel) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Uzbek: patsiyent — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Uzbek: xasta — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Uzbek: bemor — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Uzbek: kasal — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Vietnamese: bệnh nhân — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Walloon: pacyin — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Walloon: malåde — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Welsh: claf — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Yiddish: פּאַציענט (patsyent) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Zazaki: nêweş (diq) — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Zazaki: bêmer — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Zhuang: bouxbingh — someone who receives treatment from a doctor
• Arabic: مَفْعُول (mafʕūl) — linguistics
• Chinese Mandarin: 受事 (shòushì) — linguistics
• Finnish: patientti — linguistics
• German: Patiens — linguistics
• Polish: pacjens — linguistics
• Russian: па́циенс (páciens) — linguistics