nursing

nursing

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɝsɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɜːsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪŋ
• Hyphenation: nurs‧ing

Adjective

nursing (comparative more nursing, superlative most nursing)

1. In the state of suckling young, lactating.

   The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.

2. Referring to nurses.

   The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.

Translations

lactating

Chinese: Mandarin: 餵奶的／喂奶的 (zh) (wèinǎi de) Finnish: imettävä (fi)

referring to nurses

Arabic: تَمْرِيض‎ (tamrīḍ) Chinese: Mandarin: 護理的／护理的 (zh) (hùlǐ de) Finnish: sairaanhoito- (fi), hoitava (fi) Russian: медсе́стринский (medséstrinskij), се́стринский (ru) (séstrinskij)

Noun

nursing (countable and uncountable, plural nursings)

1. Suckling, such as breastfeeding.
2. The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.

   She went into nursing as a career.

   • 1871, Florence Nightingale, Una and the Lion, page 6:

     Nursing is an art; and, if it is to be made an art, requires as exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; […]

Translations

breastfeeding — see breastfeeding

caring for patients

Arabic: تَمْرِيض‎ m (tamrīḍ) Catalan: infermeria (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 護理／护理 (zh) (hùlǐ), 護理學／护理学 (zh) (hùlǐxué), 看護／看护 (zh) (kānhù) Dutch: verpleging (nl) f Esperanto: flegado Finnish: sairaanhoitoala, sairaanhoito (fi) Galician: enfermaría (gl) f Hindi: परिचर्या (hi) f (paricaryā) Irish: altranas m, banaltracht f Japanese: 看護 (ja) (か​んご, kango) Korean: 간호 (ko) (ganho) Norwegian: Bokmål: sykepleie m or f, sjukepleie m or f Nynorsk: sjukepleie f Persian: پرستاری‎ (fa) (parastâri) Polish: pielęgniarstwo (pl) Russian: медсе́стринское де́ло n (medséstrinskoje délo), се́стринское де́ло (séstrinskoje délo), ухо́д (ru) m (uxód) Scottish Gaelic: eiridinn m, altram m Spanish: enfermería (es) f

Verb

nursing

1. present participle of nurse

   The mother sat there nursing her baby.

Derived terms

• nursing bra

Anagrams

• unrings, urnings

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English nursing.

Noun

nursing n (uncountable)

1. nursing

Declension

declension of nursing (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) nursing	nursingul
genitive/dative	(unui) nursing	nursingului
vocative	nursingule