ambulance
English
/ˈæm.bjə.ləns/, /ˈæm.bjəˌlæns/
noun
Definitions
- An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
- (military) A mobile field hospital.
- (obsolete) A prairie wagon.
Etymology
Borrowed from French ambulance (ambulance) derived from Latin ambulō (walk, I walk, traverse, I go about).
Origin
Latin
ambulō
Gloss
walk, I walk, traverse, I go about
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
歩
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -ambulist English
- ambulanceman English
- ambulanceperson English
- ambulancewoman English
- ambulette English
- ambulism English
- ambulomancy English
- ambulophobia English
- nonambulance English
- person English
- *amblō Latin
- abambulo Latin
- adambulo Latin
- ambulans Latin
- ambulare Latin
- ambulatio Latin
- ambulāns Latin
- ambulō Latin
- circumambulo Latin
- coambulo Latin
- deambulo Latin
- funambulus Latin
- inambulo Latin
- obambulo Latin
- perambulo Latin
- praeambulo Latin
- ambulance Dutch, Flemish
- ambulance French
- ambuler French
- ambulans Swedish
- ambulans Polish
- एंबुलेंस Hindi
- ambulans Turkish
- ambulance Norman
- 앰뷸런스 Korean
- អំប៊ូឡង់ស៍ Central Khmer
- amblar Old Occitan