English
Etymology
From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal; analysed as heal + -er. Cognate with Dutch heler (“healer”), German Heiler (“healer”), Icelandic heilari (“healer”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhiːlə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈhilɚ/
- Rhymes: -iːlə(ɹ)
Noun
healer (plural healers)
- One who heals, especially through faith.
- Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease.
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Translations
person who heals
- Arabic: المعالج
- Bulgarian: лечител (bg) m (lečitel)
- Canela: caj
- Czech: léčitel m
- Dutch: genezer (nl) m, heler (nl) m, genezeres f, heleres f
- Esperanto: resanigisto
- Finnish: parantaja (fi)
- French: guérisseur (fr) m, guérisseuse (fr) f
- Georgian: მკურნალი (mḳurnali)
- German: Heiler (de) m, Heilerin (de) f
- Hungarian: gyógyító (hu)
- Indonesian: penyembuh (id)
- Italian: guaritore (it) m
- Kituba: nganga
- Latin: sānātor m, sanatrix f
- Macedonian: исцели́тел m (iscelítel), бајач m (bajač)
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: uzdrowiciel (pl) m, znachor (pl) m
- Portuguese: curandeiro (pt) m
- Romanian: vindecător (ro) m, vindecătoare f
- Russian: цели́тель (ru) m (celítelʹ), зна́харь (ru) m (znáxarʹ)
- Slovene: zdravilec m, zdravilka f
- Spanish: curandero (es) m, santero m, sanador (es) m
- Swedish: helare (sv) c, helbrägdagörare c
- Ukrainian: ціли́тель (uk) m (cilýtelʹ), ціли́телька (uk) f (cilýtelʹka)
- Yiddish: רופא (royfe)
- Zulu: inyanga (zu) class 9/10, ugedla class 11/10, umthandazi class 1/2
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