בית חולים

Hebrew

בֵּית חוֹלִים

Etymology

From בֵּית (bet, “house”) + חוֹלִים (kholím, “sick people, patients”).

Common enough by the year 1778 to be included in a reedition by the Italian Hebraist Giovanni Battista Gallizioli of Calepinus septem linguarum, hoc est Lexicon Latinum. Compare German Krankenhaus.

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈbet χoˈlim/

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Noun

בֵּית חוֹלִים • (bet kholím) m (plural indefinite בָּתֵּי חוֹלִים, no construct forms)

1. hospital

Synonyms

• בי״ח

Derived terms

• ביה״ח

Further reading

• בית חולים on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he