first aid

English

Noun

first aid (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Basic medical care given to an injury victim, usually where the injury is slight or where better care is not available.
   • 2022 August 10, Dr Mike Esbester, “New understandings from old incidents”, in RAIL, number 963, pages 58–59:

     He slipped and fell under the wagon's wheels, losing his left leg. His presence of mind was quite amazing. The report notes that Webb's knowledge of first aid probably saved his life, and he was able to instruct others who came to help him.

Derived terms

• first-aid box
• first aid kit

 

Translations

basic care

• Albanian: ndihmë e shpejtë f
• Arabic: إِسْعَافَات أَوَّلِيَّة m pl (ʔisʕāfāt ʔawwaliyya)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܘܼܫܦܵܐ ܩܲܕ݇ܡܵܝܵܐ m (ušpā qammāyā)
• Asturian: primeros auxilios m pl
• Basque: lehen sorospen, lehen laguntza
• Bulgarian: бърза помощ f (bǎrza pomošt)
• Catalan: primers auxilis m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 急救 (zh) (jíjiù)

• Cornish: sokor kynsa m
• Czech: první pomoc (cs) f
• Danish: førstehjælp (da) c
• Dutch: eerste hulp, EHBO (nl)
• Esperanto: unua helpo
• Estonian: esmaabi (et)
• Faroese: fyrstahjálp f
• Finnish: ensiapu (fi), ensihoito (fi)
• French: premiers secours (fr) m pl, premiers soins m pl
• Friulian: prin socors m
• Galician: primeiros auxilios m pl, primeiros socorros m pl
• Georgian: პირველადი დახმარება (ṗirveladi daxmareba), პირველი დახმარება (ṗirveli daxmareba), გადაუდებელი დახმარება (gadaudebeli daxmareba)
• German: Erste Hilfe (de) f, Nothilfe (de) f, Unfallhilfe f
• Greek: πρώτες βοήθειες (el) f pl (prótes voḯtheies)
• Hebrew: עֶזרָה רִאשׁוֹנָה (he) f (ezrá rishoná)
• Hindi: प्रथमोपचार (prathmopcār)
• Hungarian: elsősegély (hu)
• Icelandic: skyndihjálp (is) f
• Ido: unesma sokurso (io)
• Indonesian: pertolongan pertama
• Irish: garchabhair f
• Italian: primo soccorso (it) m
• Japanese: 救急 (ja) (きゅうきゅう, kyūkyū), 応急処置 (ja) (おうきゅうしょち, ōkyūshochi), 救護 (ja) (きゅうご, kyūgo), 応急措置 (おうきゅうそち, ōkyūsochi), 救護 (ja) (きゅうご, kyūgo)
• Korean: 구급(救急) (ko) (gugeup)
• Latvian: pirmā palīdzība f
• Lithuanian: pirmoji pagalba f
• Luxembourgish: Nouthëllef
• Macedonian: прва помош f (prva pomoš)
• Malay: pertolongan cemas
• Mongolian: анхны тусламж (anxny tuslamž)
• Norman: doctrinn'nie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: førstehjelp m or f

  Nynorsk: førstehjelp f

• Polish: pierwsza pomoc (pl) f
• Portuguese: primeiros socorros m pl
• Romanian: prim ajutor (ro) n
• Romansch: emprim agid m
• Russian: пе́рвая по́мощь f (pérvaja pómoščʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: ciad-fhuasgladh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прва помоћ f

  Roman: prva pomoć f

• Sinhalese: ප්‍රථමාධාර (si) (prathamādhāra)
• Slovak: prvá pomoc f
• Slovene: prva pomoč f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: prědna pomoc f

• Spanish: primeros auxilios (es) m pl
• Swahili: huduma ya kwanza
• Swedish: första hjälpen c
• Tagalog: paunang lunas, unang lunas, kagyat na lunas, paunang tulong-panlunas
• Tatar: беренче ярдәм sg (berençe yardäm)
• Thai: ปฐมพยาบาล (bpà-tǒm-pá-yaa-baan)
• Turkish: ilk yardım (tr)
• Turkmen: ilkinji kömek
• Ukrainian: пе́рша допомо́га (pérša dopomóha)
• Vietnamese: sơ cấp cứu
• Welsh: cymorth cyntaf m
• Yiddish: גיכע הילף (gikhe hilf)

Further reading

• first aid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia