بیمار

Persian

Dari	بیمار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бемор

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭩𐭬𐭠𐭫 (wēmār, “sick, ill”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”) + ār (agent suffix). Cognate with Latin vomō (“be sick, vomit”), Northern Kurdish bîvêr.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [beː.ˈmɑːɾ], [biː.ˈmɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beː.mɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beː.mɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [beː.mɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [beː.mɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [biː.mɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [be.mɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bēmār, bīmār
Dari reading?	bēmār
Iranian reading?	bimâr
Tajik reading?	bemor

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Noun

بیمار • (bimâr) (plural بیماران (bimârân) or بیمارها (bimâr-hâ))

1. sick or ill person

   Synonyms: مریض (mariz), ناخوش (nâxoš), دردمند (dardmand), ناتندرست (nâtandorost)

Derived terms

• بیماری (bimâri)
• بیمارستان (bimârestân)

Adjective

بیمار • (bimâr) (comparative بیمارتَر (bimâr-tar), superlative بیمارتَرین (bimâr-tarin))

1. sick, ill

Inflection

Predicative forms of بیمار (bimâr)

	singular	plural
1st person (“I am, we are”)	بیمارم (bimâram)	بیماریم (bimârim)
2nd person (“you are”)	بیماری (bimâri)	بیمارید، بیمارین△ (bimârid, bimârin△)
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	بیمار است، بیماره△ (bimâr ast, bimâre△)	بیمارند، بیمارن△ (bimârand, bimâran△)

^△ Colloquial.

Descendants

• → Assamese: বেমাৰ (bemar)
• → Gujarati: બીમાર (bīmār)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बीमार (bīmār)

  Urdu: بیمار (bīmār)

• → Odia: ବେମାରିଆ (bemāriā)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بیمار (bîmâr)

Further reading

• Bulkin, Carleton (2012) “بیمار”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 67

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بیمار (bīmār).

Adjective

بیمار • (bīmār)

1. ill, sick

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بیمار (bīmār).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /biː.mɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: بی‧مار

Adjective

بِیمار • (bīmār) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling बीमार)

1. ill; sick

   Synonyms: مَرِیض (marīẓ), روگی (rogī)

2. (figuratively) in love, lover

Derived terms

• بیمار خانہ (bīmār xāna, “hospital”)
• بیمارستان (bīmāristān, “hospital”)
• بیماری (bīmārī, “illness”)

Further reading

• “بیمار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بیمار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بيمار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.