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Etymology

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From Russian врач (vrač).

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врач (wraç)

  1. physician
    Synonyms: доктор (doktor), эмчи (emçi)

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Macedonian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьračь.

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врач (vračm

  1. witch doctor, medicine man, healer

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Russian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic врачь (vračĭ), from Proto-Slavic *vьračь. By surface analysis, врать (vratʹ) +‎ -ач (-ač). Originally meant "witch-doctor, enchanter".

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [vrat͡ɕ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -at͡ɕ

Noun

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врач (vračm anim (genitive врача́, nominative plural врачи́, genitive plural враче́й)

  1. (medicine, formal) therapist, not surgeon, not hospital nurse
    Synonym: терапе́вт (terapévt, tɛrapévt)
  2. doc, vet, medic, physician, doctor
    Synonyms: до́ктор (dóktor), зна́харь (znáxarʹ), ле́карь (lékarʹ), цели́тель (celítelʹ)
    Ка́ждый день я́блоко одно́ — врачу́ остава́ться далеко́
    Káždyj denʹ jábloko odnó — vračú ostavátʹsja dalekó
    An apple a day keeps the doctor away
    (literally, “every day apple a-one is for the physician to stay away”)

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  1. A female medical doctor is referred to as врач (vrač), or же́нщина-врач (žénščina-vrač), or, colloquially only, врачи́ха (vračíxa), which is dispreferred.
  2. The archaic vocative form вра́чу (vráču) is currently found only in the set phrase:
    вра́чу, исцели́ся самvráču, iscelísja samphysician, heal thyself

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Descendants

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  • Yakut: быраас (bıraas)

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьračь.

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вра̑ч m (Latin spelling vrȃč)

  1. witch doctor (shamanistic priest in aboriginal cultures)
  2. (obsolete) physician, doctor

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Yakut

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian врач (vrač).

Noun

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врач (vrac)

  1. doctor

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