hospital

English

A room in a hospital.

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

hospital (plural hospitals)

1. A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
2. A building founded for the long term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
3. (obsolete) A place of lodging.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:

     they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht [...].

4. (UK, chiefly in prepositional phrases, without determiner or article) The place and state of being hospitalized.

   Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.

Synonyms

• sickhouse

Derived terms

• cottage hospital

Related terms

• hospitable
• hospitality
• hospitaller

Translations

building

• Afrikaans: hospitaal (af)
• Arabic: مستشفى (ar) (mustášfā) f

  Moroccan Arabic: صبطار (SbiTār) m

• Aragonese: espital m
• Armenian: հիվանդանոց (hy) (hivandanoc’) 
• Asturian: hospital (ast) m
• Azeri: xəstəxana (az)
• Baluchi: اسپتال
• Basque: ospitale (eu), erietxe (eu)
• Belarusian: бальніца (be) (bal’níca) f , шпiталь (be) (špitál’) m , лякарня (be) (ljakárnja) f 
• Bulgarian: болница (bg) (bólnica) f 
• Burmese: ဆေးရုံ (my) (hse:yon)
• Catalan: hospital (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醫院 (cmn), 医院 (cmn) (yīyuàn)

• Czech: nemocnice (cs) f, (dated, colloquial) špitál (cs) m
• Danish: hospital (da) n, sygehus (da) n
• Dutch: ziekenhuis (nl) n, hospitaal (nl) n, gasthuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: malsanulejo (eo), hospitalo (eo)
• Estonian: haigla (et)
• Ewe: atikewɔƒe n, kɔdzi n
• Faroese: sjúkrahús (fo) n
• Finnish: sairaala (fi)
• French: hôpital (fr) m
• Galician: hospital (gl) m
• Georgian: საავადმყოფო (ka) (saavadmqop’o) 
• German: Krankenhaus (de) n
• Greek: νοσοκομείο (el) (nosokomío) n 
• Hebrew: בֵּית־חוֹלִים (he) (beit-kholím) m
• Hiligaynon: ospital, klinika, bululngan
• Hindi: रुग्णालय (hi) (rugṇālay) m, अस्पताल (hi) (aspatāl) m
• Hungarian: kórház (hu)
• Icelandic: sjúkrahús (is) n
• Indonesian: rumah sakit, hospital
• Interlingua: hospital (ia)
• Inuktitut: ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᒃ (iu) (aanniavik)
• Irish: ospidéal
• Italian: ospedale (it) m
• Japanese: 病院 (ja) (びょういん, byōin)
• Kazakh: аурухана (kk) (awrwxana) 
• Khmer: មន្ទីរពេទ្យ (km) (mʊəntii pɛɛt)
• Korean: 병원 (ko) (byeong-won) (病院 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نه‌خۆشخانه‌ (ku), خه‌سته‌خانه‌ (ku)

• Kyrgyz: оорукана (ky) (oorukana) 

• Lao: ​ໂຮງໝໍ (lo) (hóːŋmɔ̌ː)
• Latin: nosocomium (la), valetudinarium (la)
• Latvian: slimnīca (lv) f
• Lithuanian: ligoninė (lt) f
• Lombard: ospedal
• Luxembourgish: Spidol (lb) n
• Macedonian: болница (mk) (bólnica) f
• Malay: hospital (ms), rumah sakit (ms)
• Maltese: sptar (mt)
• Mongolian: эмнэлэг (mn) (emneleg) , госпиталь (mn) (gospital’) 
• Norwegian: sykehus (no) n
• Papiamentu: hòspital
• Pashto: روغتون (ps) (roγtun) m
• Persian: بیمارستان (fa) (bimârestân)
• Polish: szpital (pl) m
• Portuguese: hospital (pt) m
• Romanian: spital (ro) n
• Russian: больница (ru) (bol’níca) f , госпиталь (ru) (góspital’) m  (usually a military hospital)
• Sanskrit: चिकित्सालय (sa) (cikitsālaya) m
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-leighis (gd) m, taigh-eiridinn (gd) m, taigh-tinnis (gd) m, ospadal (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: болница (sh) f

  Roman: bolnica (sh) f

• Slovak: nemocnica (sk) f
• Slovene: bolnišnica (sl) f, bolnica (sl) f
• Spanish: hospital (es) m
• Swahili: hospitali (sw)
• Swedish: sjukhus (sv) n
• Tagalog: ospital (tl), pagamutan (tl)
• Tajik: бемористон (tg) (bemoriston) 
• Tatar: хастаханә (tt) (xastaxanä), шифаханә (tt) (şifaxanä)
• Telugu: ఆసుపత్రి (te) (aasupatri)
• Tetum: ospitál, uma-moras
• Thai: โรงพยาบาล (th) (rohng phayaabaan)
• Tok Pisin: haus sik (tpi)
• Turkish: hastane (tr)
• Turkmen: keselhana (tk), gospital (tk)

  Cyrillic: кеселхана (tk), госпитал (tk)

• Ukrainian: лікарня (uk) (likárnja) f , шпiталь (uk) (špitál’) m 
• Urdu: اسپتال (ur) (aspatāl) m
• Uzbek: kasalxona (uz)
• Vietnamese: bệnh viện (vi), nhà thương (vi)
• Welsh: ysbyty (cy) m

Adjective

hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)

1. (obsolete) hospitable

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitals)

1. hospital

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin hospitāle (“hospital, guesthouse”), from the neuter form of hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest, stranger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɔspitaːl/, [hɔsb̥iˈtˢæːˀl] or IPA: /hospitaːl/, [hosb̥iˈtˢæːˀl]

Noun

hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)

1. hospital

Synonyms

• sygehus n

Inflection

    Inflection of hospital

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	hospital	hospitalet	hospitaler	hospitalerne
genitive	hospitals	hospitalets	hospitalers	hospitalernes

External links

• Hospital on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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French

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitaux)

1. Obsolete spelling of hôpital.

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hos.piˈtal/

Adjective

hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)

1. hospitable

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Malay

Etymology

From English hospital, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɔspital/
• Rhymes: -ital, -tal, -al

Noun

hospital (plural hospital-hospital)

1. hospital (building)

Synonyms

• rumah sakit

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Middle French

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitaulx)

1. hospital (medical)

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Old French

Noun

hospital m (oblique plural hospitaus, nominative singular hospitaus, nominative plural hospital)

1. hospital (medical)

Adjective

hospital

1. hospitable; welcoming

Declension

  Declension of hospital  

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	hospitals, hospitaus	hospitale	hospital
	Oblique	hospital	hospitale	hospital
Plural	Subject	hospital	hospitales	hospital
	Oblique	hospitals, hospitaus	hospitales	hospital

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Portuguese

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitais)

1. hospital

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospitale.

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitales)

1. hospital

Related terms

• hostal

See also

• clínica

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Swedish

Noun

hospital n

1. (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital

Declension

Declension of hospital

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hospital	hospitalet	hospital	hospitalen
genitive	hospitals	hospitalets	hospitals	hospitalens