healer
çekim: çoğul guérisseurs
eş: meige, remègeux
köken: From Middle French gariseur. By surface analysis, guérir + -eur. From guérir + -eur.
witch, sorceress (woman who practices witchcraft) · specifically, a Wiccan · crone, hag (ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman)
çekim: çoğul brujas
eş: bauda, cuaco, garza nocturna coroninegra, garza bruja, gauda, guaco
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Catalan bruixa, Portuguese bruxa, Occitan bruèissa), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).
aile: ajo de bruja, brujería, brujita, caza de brujas, correo de las brujas, embrujar, garza bruja, Noche de Brujas
female equivalent of sciamano (“shamaness”)
çekim: çoğul sciamane
medicine man, witch doctor
çekim: çoğul medicijnmannen
eş: sjamaan, toverdokter
köken: Compound of medicijn + man, probably a calque.
female equivalent of curandeiro
çekim: çoğul curandeiras
witch doctor
çekim: çoğul häxdoktorer · tamlayan häxdoktors
köken: häxa + doktor
homosexual or effeminate man; fag; faggot · menstruation · female foreteller or witch doctor
çekim: çoğul cioty · tamlayan cioty
eş: gej, homo, pedzio, menstruacja, okres, period
köken: Back-formation from ciotka.
medicine man, witch doctor
çekim: çoğul poppamiehet · tamlayan poppamiehen
köken: From Russian поп (pop, “priest”) > poppa + mies (“man”).
Çekçe 🔊 šaman (eril) /ˈʃaman/ shaman
çekim: çoğul šamani · tamlayan šamana
shaman
çekim: çoğul șamani · tamlayan șamanului
köken: Borrowed from French chaman.
witch doctor · a quack
çekim: çoğul heksedoktorer · tamlayan heksedoktors
köken: From heks + -e- + doktor.
sorcerer, physician (those who cure with magic)
köken: From thầy + mo, the latter borrowed from Tai; compare Thai หมอ (mɔ̌ɔ).
witch doctor; a woman who uses herbs, spells and blessings to cure
çekim: çoğul bieiteiras
köken: Either from bieito (“blessed”) + -eira, or from bieiteiro (“elder tree”).
doctor, physician · quack, witch doctor
çekim: çoğul հեքիմներ
köken: From Middle Armenian հեքիմ (hekʻim), հաքիմ (hakʻim), from Arabic حَكِيم (ḥakīm). In some dialects, via Ottoman Turkish حكیم (hekim) and Azerbaijani həkim.
aile: Հեքիմյան
🔊 հէքիմ․ մէտիքօ hēkʻim; mētikʻō հէքիմ (hēkʻim) = medico
witch
çekim: çoğul გრძნეულები
köken: From გრძნობა (grʒnoba, “to feel”).
herb doctor; witch doctor; faith healer
köken: Early borrowing of Spanish herbolario (“herbal doctor; herbalist”).