pharmacist

English

Etymology

From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fär'məsĭst, IPA^(key): /ˈfɑɹməsɪst/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pharmacist (plural pharmacists)

1. (pharmacy) A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.
   • 2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1877 - 1898, →ISBN:

     He has served as a prescriptionist to the leading pharmacists of the old country, and been employed in many of our American cities.

   • 2017 February 25, Simon Cocking, “Dronalism and The New Media”, in Irish Tech News:

     By Admir, pharmacist by profession and hobby dronist by passion.

2. (pharmacy, academic) One who studies pharmacy.

Synonyms

• druggist; chemist (UK); pharmacian (rare, dated); apothecary (historical); pharmacopolist (archaic or historical); quack, snake oil salesman, pharmacopole (pejorative), gallipot (now rare)

Derived terms

• street pharmacist

Related terms

• See pharmacy

Translations

professional who dispenses prescription drugs

• Afrikaans: apteker (af)
• Albanian: farmacist (sq) m
• Arabic: صَيْدَلِيّ m (ṣaydaliyy), صَيْدَلَانِيّ m (ṣaydalāniyy)
• Armenian: դեղագործ (hy) (deġagorc)
• Azerbaijani: əczaçı (az)
• Belarusian: аптэ́кар m (aptékar), аптэ́карка f (aptékarka), фармацэ́ўт m (farmacéŭt)
• Bulgarian: фармаце́вт m (farmacévt), аптека́р (bg) m (aptekár)
• Catalan: farmacèutic (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藥劑師 / 药剂师 (zh) (yàojìshī), 藥師 / 药师 (zh) (yàoshī)

• Czech: lékárník (cs) m, farmaceut (cs) m
• Danish: apoteker (da) c, farmaceut (da) c, farmakonom (da) c
• Dutch: apotheker (nl) m, apothekeres (nl) f
• Estonian: apteeker (et), farmatseut
• Finnish: apteekkari (fi), proviisori (fi), farmaseutti (fi)
• French: pharmacien (fr) m, pharmacienne (fr) f, apothicaire (fr) (obsolete)
• Galician: farmacéutico (gl) m
• Georgian: ფარმაცევტი (parmacevṭi), მეაფთიაქე (meaptiake)
• German: Apotheker (de) m, Apothekerin (de) f
• Greek: φαρμακοποιός (el) m (farmakopoiós)

  Ancient: φαρμακοπώλης m (pharmakopṓlēs)

• Hebrew: רוֹקֵחַ (he) m (rokéakh)
• Hindi: औषधकार m (auṣadhkār)
• Hungarian: patikus (hu), gyógyszertári eladó
• Icelandic: apótekari m, lyfsali m
• Indonesian: apoteker (id), farmasis
• Irish: poitigéir m, cógaiseoir m
• Italian: farmacista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 薬剤師 (ja) (やくざいし, yakuzaishi), 薬屋 (ja) (くすりや, kusuriya) (place or person)
• Kazakh: дәріханашы (därıxanaşy), фармацевт (farmasevt)
• Khmer: ឱសថការី (ʼaosɑt kaarəy), ឱសថការិនី (ʼaosɑt kaarenəy) (female)
• Korean: 약사(藥師) (ko) (yaksa), 약제사(藥劑師) (ko) (yakjesa)
• Kyrgyz: аптекарь (ky) (aptekar)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: pharmacopola
• Latvian: aptiekārs m
• Lithuanian: vaistininkas (lt) m, vaistininkė f
• Macedonian: аптекар (mk) m (aptekar), аптекарка f (aptekarka), фармаце́вт m (farmacévt), фармаце́втка f (farmacévtka)
• Maltese: spiżjar m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эм зүйч (em züjč), эм найруулагч (em najruulagč)

• Navajo: azeeʼ baa nahaniihí
• Norman: apotitchi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: farmasøyt m, apoteker (no) m

  Nynorsk: apotekar m, farmasøyt m

• Persian: داروساز (fa) (dârusâz), داروگر (fa) (dârugar) (archaic)
• Polish: aptekarz (pl) m, aptekarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: farmacêutico (pt) m
• Romanian: farmacist (ro) m, farmacistă (ro) f
• Russian: фармаце́вт (ru) m (farmacévt), апте́карь (ru) m (aptékarʹ), апте́карша (ru) f (aptékarša)
• Scots: pottinger (obsolete)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: апотѐка̄р m

  Roman: apotèkār (sh) m

• Slovak: lekárnik m, farmaceut m
• Slovene: lekarnar m, lekarnarka f
• Spanish: farmacéutico (es) m, farmacéutica (es) f, boticario (es) m
• Swahili: mfamasia
• Swedish: apotekare (sv) c
• Tajik: дорусоз (dorusoz)
• Thai: เภสัชกร (th) (pee-sàt-chá-gɔɔn)
• Turkish: eczacı (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎖𐎈 (rqḥ)
• Ukrainian: апте́кар (uk) m (aptékar), апте́карка (uk) f (aptékarka)
• Urdu: دَوا ساز m (davā-sāz)
• Uzbek: aptekachi (uz), aptekar, farmatsevt (uz)
• Vietnamese: dược sĩ (vi) (藥士), dược sư (藥師)
• Volapük: (♂♀) pötekan (vo), (♂) hipötekan, (♀) jipötekan (vo), (♂♀) drogan (vo), (♂) hidrogan, (♀) jidrogan
• Welsh: fferyllydd (cy) m or f
• West Frisian: apoteker m
• Yiddish: אַפּטייקער m (apteyker), אַפּטייקערין f (apteykerin)

one who studies pharmacy

• Afrikaans: farmaseut
• Dutch: farmaceut (nl) m
• Finnish: farmasian opiskelija
• French: pharmacien (fr) m, pharmacienne (fr) f
• Georgian: ფარმაკოლოგი (parmaḳologi), ფარმაცევტი (parmacevṭi)
• German: Pharmazeut m, Pharmazeutin f
• Hungarian: gyógyszerész (hu)
• Italian: farmacista (it) m or f
• Kazakh: фармацевт (farmasevt)
• Macedonian: фармаце́вт m (farmacévt)
• Polish: farmaceuta (pl) m, farmaceutka (pl) f
• Portuguese: farmacêutico (pt) m
• Romanian: farmacolog (ro) m, farmacologă (ro) f
• Russian: фармаце́вт (ru) m (farmacévt)
• Vietnamese: dược sĩ (vi), dược sĩ bào chế

References

• “pharmacist, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.