psychiatry

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /saɪˈkaɪ.əˌtɹi/

Noun

psychiatry (usually uncountable, plural psychiatries)

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

Derived terms

Translations

branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders

Adyghe: психиатрие f (psixiātrie)
Arabic: الطِّبّ النَّفْسِيّ‎ (aṭ-ṭibb an-nafsiyy)
Armenian: հոգեբուժություն (hy) (hogebužutʿyun)
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 (zing¹san⁴beng⁶hok⁶)

Mandarin: 精神病學 (zh), 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: psîkiyatrî (ku)
Central Kurdish: دەروونپزیشکی‎ (derûnpzîşkî)

Kyrgyz: психиатрия (psihiatriya)
Latvian: psihiatrija f
Maori: mātai mate hinengaro
Mazanderani: روان پزشکی‎
Mongolian: психиатри (psihiatri)
Nepali: मनोरोग विज्ञान (manoroga wijñāna)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: psykiatri m

Nynorsk: psykiatri m
Persian: روانپزشکی‎ (fa) (ravan-pezeshki)
Polish: psychiatria (pl) f
Portuguese: psiquiatria (pt) f
Punjabi: ਸਾਈਕੈਟਰੀ (sāēkaeṭrī)
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 (psixiatriya)
Telugu: మనోరోగచికిత్స (manōrōgacikitsa)
Thai: จิตเวชศาสตร์ (jìtwêetsàat)
Turkish: psikiyatri (tr)
Ukrainian: психіатрі́я (psyxiatríja)
Volapük: lanivestig, lienetisanav
Yiddish: פּסיכיאַטריע‎ (psikhyatrye)

See also

psychopathology

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