barefoot doctor

English

Etymology

Derived from the practice of farmers in southern China working barefoot in rice paddies.

Noun

barefoot doctor (plural barefoot doctors)

1. (historical) A farmer or rural resident with basic medical training who worked as a doctor in rural areas of the People's Republic of China from the mid-1960s until the 1980s, generally under a government-sponsored program.

Translations

farmer with basic medical training

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赤腳醫生／赤脚医生 (zh) (chìjiǎo yīshēng)

• Esperanto: nudpieda kuracisto
• Finnish: paljasjalkalääkäri
• French: médecin aux pieds nus (fr) m
• German: Barfußarzt m, Barfußärztin f
• Norwegian: barfotlege m
• Portuguese: médico de pés descalços m, médica de pés descalços f
• Romanian: medic desculț m, doctor desculț m
• Russian: босоногий доктор m (bosonogij doktor)
• Spanish: médico descalzo m, médica descalza f
• Swedish: barfotaläkare c
• Tibetan: སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན་མ (sman pa rkang rjen ma), སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན (sman pa rkang rjen)
• Volapük: nüdafutasanan