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.ˈmaːr/, /biː.ˈmaːr/

 

• (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 • (bēmār, bīmār / bimâr, bimâr) (plural بیماران (bēmārān, bīmārān / bimârân, bimârân), or بیمارها (bēmār-hā, bīmār-hā / bimâr-hâ, bimâr-hâ), Tajik spelling бемор, or бемор)

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, superlative بیمارتَرین)

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, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “بيمار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.