ambulance

Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced French (hôpital) ambulant (“walking, shifting (hospital)”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“I walk, I go about”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/
• (AAVE, also) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bjəˌlæns/

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• Hyphenation: am‧bu‧lance

ambulance (plural ambulances)

1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854[1]]
2. (military) A mobile field hospital. [1798[1]]
3. (obsolete, US) A prairie wagon. [Late 19c.[1]]

• ambulatory
• ambulant

• → Baharna Arabic: عمبلوص‎ (ʕambalūṣ)
• → Hindi: एम्बुलेंस (embulens)
• → Swahili: ambulensi

ambulance (third-person singular simple present ambulances, present participle ambulancing, simple past and past participle ambulanced)

1. (transitive) To transport by ambulance.
   • 1918, Western Surgical Association: Transactions, volume 27, page 66:

     Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.

• ambulance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• ambulance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• IPA^(key): [ˈambulant͡sɛ]

ambulance f

1. ambulance
2. hospital ward or department that offers outpatient care

• (ambulance): sanitka

• ambulantní
• ambulantně

• ambulance in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• ambulance in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from French ambulance.

• IPA^(key): /ɑmbuˈlɑŋsə/

ambulance c (singular definite ambulancen, plural indefinite ambulancer)

1. ambulance

• “ambulance” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from French ambulance.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑm.byˈlɑn.sə/

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• Hyphenation: am‧bu‧lan‧ce
• Rhymes: -ɑnsə

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. ambulance
   • 1975, Anke de Vries, Het geheim van Mories Besjoer, Lemniscaat, 59.

     Ze beschrijven uitvoerig hoe Maurice te hulp schoot, toen hij gegil hoorde, hoe hij iemand had zien wegvluchten uit de kamer en dat hij het was geweest, die een ambulance had gebeld.

   • 1979, Rubberen Robbie, "De ambulance", Zuipen (CD).

     Twee, drie, weken geleden kwam de ambulance / Bij onze buurman hier net om de hoek

• ziekenauto
• ziekenwagen

• Afrikaans: ambulans
• → Indonesian: ambulans
• → Sranan Tongo: ambilans
  • → Caribbean Javanese: ambilas

From Latin ambulans, present participle of ambulō (“I walk, I go about”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.by.lɑ̃s/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. ambulance

• → Dutch: ambulance (see there for further descendants)
• → English: ambulance
• → Romanian: ambulanță
• → Turkish: ambulans

• “ambulance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English ambulance and French ambulance.

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. (Jersey) ambulance