obstetrician

English

Etymology

From obstetrics +‎ -ician.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɒbstəˈtɹɪʃən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑbstəˈtɹɪʃən/

Noun

obstetrician (plural obstetricians)

1. (medicine) A physician who specializes in childbirth.

   Synonyms: obstetrist, tocologist

Related terms

• obstetrician-gynecologist

Translations

a physician who specializes in childbirth

• Armenian: մանկաբարձ (hy) (mankabarj)
• Belarusian: акушэр m (akušer)
• Bulgarian: акушер m (akušer), акуше́рка (bg) f (akušérka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 產科醫生 / 产科医生 (chǎnkē yīshēng)

• Czech: porodník (cs) m
• Danish: fødselshjælper c
• Dutch: gynaecoloog (nl), verloskundige (nl) m
• Finnish: synnytyslääkäri
• French: obstétricien (fr) m, obstétricienne (fr) f, accoucheur (fr) m, accoucheuse (fr) f, gynécologue (fr) m or f
• Georgian: მეანი (ka) (meani)
• German: Geburtshelfer (de) m, Geburtshelferin (de) f, Entbindungspfleger (de) m, Entbindungspflegerin (de) f
• Greek: μαιευτήρας (el) m or f (maieftíras)
• Hungarian: szülész (hu)
• Irish: cnáimhseoir m, obstatraí m
• Italian: ostetrico (it) m
• Japanese: 産科医 (ja) (さんかい, sankai)
• Macedonian: акушер m (akušer)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fødselshjelper m

  Nynorsk: fødselshjelpar m

• Persian: دکتر زایمان (doktor-e zâyemân), پزشک زایمان (pezešk-e zâyemân)
• Polish: położnik (pl) m, położna (pl) f
• Portuguese: obstetra (pt) m or f
• Romanian: obstetrician (ro) m, obstetriciană (ro) f
• Russian: акуше́р (ru) m (akušér), акуше́рка (ru) f (akušérka), гинеко́лог (ru) m (ginekólog) (gynaecologist)
• Spanish: tocólogo (es) m, tocóloga f, obstetra m or f
• Swahili: daktari wa uzazi
• Swedish: obstetriker c, ackuschör (sv) c
• Telugu: ప్రసూతివైద్యుడు (prasūtivaidyuḍu)
• Thai: สูติแพทย์
• Turkish: doğumcu, doğum uzmanı
• Ukrainian: акушер (uk) m (akušer)
• Yiddish: אָבסטעטריקער m (obstetriker), אָבסטעטריקערין f (obstetrikerin)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French obstétricien.

Noun

obstetrician m (plural obstetricieni)

1. obstetrician

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	obstetrician	obstetricianul		obstetricieni	obstetricienii
genitive-dative	obstetrician	obstetricianului		obstetricieni	obstetricienilor
vocative	obstetricianule			obstetricienilor