अस्पताल

Hindi

Alternative forms

• हस्पताल (haspatāl)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis

Proto-Indo-European *pótis

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis

Proto-Italic *hostipotis

Latin hospes

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin hospitālis

Late Latin hospitāle

Old Galician-Portuguese espital

Portuguese espitalbor.

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English hospitalinflu.

Hindi अस्पताल

Borrowed from Portuguese espital, influenced by English hospital.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /əs.pə.t̪ɑːl/, [ɐs.pɐ.t̪äːl]

Noun

अस्पताल • (aspatāl) m (Urdu spelling اسپتال)

1. hospital

   Synonym: चिकित्सालय (cikitsālay)

Declension

Declension of अस्पताल (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	अस्पताल aspatāl	अस्पताल aspatāl
oblique	अस्पताल aspatāl	अस्पतालों aspatālõ
vocative	अस्पताल aspatāl	अस्पतालो aspatālo

Descendants

• → Assamese: আস্পতাল (aspotal)
• → Caribbean Hindustani: aspataal
• → Fiji Hindi: aspataal
• → Nepali: अस्पताल (aspatāl)

From हस्पताल (haspatāl)

• → Kashmiri: ہَسپَتال (haspatāl)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਹਸਪਤਾਲ (haspatāl)

  Shahmukhi script: ہَسپَتال (haspatāl)

Nepali

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis

Proto-Indo-European *pótis

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis

Proto-Italic *hostipotis

Latin hospes

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin hospitālis

Late Latin hospitāle

Old Galician-Portuguese espital

Portuguese espitalbor.

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English hospitalinflu.

Hindi अस्पताल (aspatāl)bor.

Nepali अस्पताल

Borrowed from Hindi अस्पताल (aspatāl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʌspʌt̪äl]
• Phonetic Devanagari: अस्पताल्

Noun

अस्पताल • (aspatāl)

1. hospital

Further reading

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1931), “अस्पताल”, in A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner