barefoot doctor

barefoot doctor

English

Etymology

Derived from the practice of farmers in southern China working barefoot in rice paddies.

Noun

barefoot doctor (plural barefoot doctors)

1. A farmer or rural resident with basic medical training who worked as a doctor in rural areas of the People's Republic of China from the mid-1960s until the 1980s, generally under a government-sponsored program.

Translations

farmer with basic medical training

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 赤腳醫生 (zh), 赤脚医生 (zh) (chìjiǎo yīshēng) Esperanto: nudpieda kuracisto Finnish: paljasjalkalääkäri French: médecin aux pieds nus (fr) m German: Barfußarzt m, Barfußärztin f

Norwegian: barfotlege m Portuguese: médico de pés descalços m, médica de pés descalços f Romanian: medic desculț m, doctor desculț m Spanish: médico descalzo m, médica descalza f Swedish: barfotaläkare c Tibetan: སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན་མ (sman pa rkang rjen ma), སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན (sman pa rkang rjen) Volapük: nüdafutasanan