nursing home

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Noun

nursing home (plural nursing homes)

A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disabilities.

Synonyms

care home
carehouse
old-age home
old folks' home (US)
old people's home
rest home
senior citizens' home (US)

Translations

place of residence

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: (for elderly) ծերանոց (hy) (ceranocʻ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 療養院／疗养院 (zh) (liáoyǎngyuàn), 養老院／养老院 (zh) (yǎnglǎoyuàn), 敬老院 (zh) (jìnglǎoyuàn)
Esperanto: maljunulejo
Finnish: hoitokoti (fi)
French: maison de repos (fr) f
German: Pflegeheim (de) n
Greek: γηροκομείο (el) n (girokomeío), οίκος ευγηρίας (el) m (oíkos evgirías)
Ancient: γεροντοκομεῖον n (gerontokomeîon)
Gujarati: વૃદ્ધાશ્રમ (vŕddhāśram)
Icelandic: hjúkrunarheimili (is) n
Irish: teach altranais m
Italian: casa di riposo f
Japanese: (for elderly) 老人ホーム (ja) (rōjin hōmu), 養護ホーム (yōgo hōmu)
Korean: 요양원 (yoyang'won)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: aramxane (ku) f
Luxembourgish: Fleegeheem n
Maori: whare mātāpuputu
Polish: dom pomocy społecznej (pl) m, dom spokojnej starości (pl) m, dom pogodnej jesieni m, dom starców (pl) m
Portuguese: asilo (pt) m, casa de repouso f
Russian: (for elderly) дом престаре́лых (ru) m (dom prestarélyx), ча́стная лече́бница f (částnaja lečébnica)
Scottish Gaelic: taigh-altraim m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ста̏рачкӣ до̑м m, до̑м за старије и немоћне особе m

Roman: stȁračkī dȏm m, dȏm za starije i nemoćne osobe m
Spanish: asilo (es) m, cotolengo (Latin America)
Swedish: ålderdomshem (sv) n (for elderly), äldreboende (sv) n, åldringshem (sv) n (Finland Swedish), vårdhem (sv) n
Welsh: cartref nyrsio m

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