medicine woman

English

Noun

medicine woman (plural medicine women)

A female Native American (or, any other indigenous) shamanistic healer.
Coordinate term: medicine man

Near-synonym: shaman

Related terms

Translations

shamanistic healer

Danish: klog kone c, medicinkvinde c (rare)
Dutch: medicijnvrouw f
Esperanto: kuraculino
French: femme-médecine (fr) f, sorcière (fr) f
German: Medizinfrau (de) f
Maasai: enk-aíkoni
Norwegian:
Bokmål: medisinkvinne m or f

Nynorsk: medisinkvinne f
Polish: babka (pl) f (historical)
Swedish: medicinkvinna c

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