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بیمار

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Persian

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Dari بیمار
Iranian Persian
Tajik бемор

Etymology

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    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

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    Readings
    Classical reading? bēmār, bīmār
    Dari reading? bēmār
    Iranian reading? bimâr
    Tajik reading? bemor
    • Audio (Iran):(file)

    Noun

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    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

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    Adjective

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

    1. sick, ill

    Inflection

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    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

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    Further reading

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

    Sindhi

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Classical Persian بیمار (bīmār).

    Adjective

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    بیمار (bīmār)

    1. ill, sick

    Urdu

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Classical Persian بیمار (bīmār).

    Pronunciation

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    Adjective

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    بِیمار (bīmār) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling बीमार)

    1. ill; sick
      Synonyms: مَرِیض (marīẓ), روگی (rogī)
    2. (figuratively) in love, lover

    Derived terms

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    Further reading

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    • 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.