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first aid

first aid noun: basic medical care that is administered to a victim of an injury, usually where the injury is slight or where better care is unavailable.

Noun

first aid (uncountable)

  1. Basic medical care that is administered to a victim of an injury, usually where the injury is slight or where better care is unavailable.
    • 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.2022 August 10, Dr Mike Esbester, “New understandings from old incidents”, in RAIL, number 963, pages 58–59

first aid meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

first aid in Hindi

basic care
प्रथमोपचार prathmopcār

first aid in Tamil

basic care
முதலுதவி mutalutavi

first aid in Urdu

basic care
اِبْتِدائی طِبّی اِمْداد ibtidāī tibbī imdād, فوری امداد faurī-imdād

first aid in Bengali

basic care
প্রাথমিক চিকিৎসা prathomik cikitśa, ফার্স্ট এইড pharsṭ eiḍ
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first aid in Telugu
ప్రథమచికిత్స prathamacikitsa
first aid in Kannada
ಮೊದಲೊದವಿ, ಮುನ್ನಾರೈಕೆ, ಮೊದಲಮದ್ದು
first aid in Sinhala
ප්රථමාධාර prathamādhāra
first aid in Tagalog
paunang lunas, unang lunas, kagyat na lunas, paunang tulong-panlunas
first aid in Arabic
إِسْعَافَات أَوَّلِيَّة ʔisʕāfāt ʔawwaliyya, إِسْعَاف أَوَّلِيّ ʔisʕāf ʔawwaliyy
first aid in Malay
pertolongan cemas
first aid in Indonesian
pertolongan pertama
first aid in Thai
ปฐมพยาบาล bpà-tǒm-pá-yaa-baan
first aid in Vietnamese
sơ cấp cứu, sơ cứu
first aid in Myanmar
ရှေးဦးသူနာပြု hre:u:suna-pru.

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Questions about first aid

What does first aid mean?
First aid means basic medical care that is administered to a victim of an injury, usually where the injury is slight or where better care is unavailable.
What is first aid in Hindi?
First aid in Hindi is प्रथमोपचार (prathmopcār). See First aid meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is first aid?
First aid is a noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: first aid (page history and authors); ప్రథమచికిత్స (Telugu) (page history and authors); first aid (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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