હકીમ

Gujarati

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حکیم (hakīm), from Arabic حَكِيم (ḥakīm). Compare Hindi हकीम (hakīm), Punjabi ਹਕੀਮ (hakīm) / حکیم (hakīm).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Gujarati) IPA^(key): /ˈɦə.kim/

Noun

હકીમ • (hakīm) m

1. doctor, physician (usually applied to one that uses Greek medical science and is Muslim)

   Synonyms: ચિકિત્સક (cikitsak), વૈદ્ય (vaidya), દાક્તર (dāktar), ભિષક (bhiṣak)

2. thinker, scholar, wise man, philosopher

   Synonym: ફિલસૂફ (philsūph)

3. (Islam) The Wise (one of the 99 names of Allah)

Derived terms

• હકીમખાની (hakīmkhānī)