hospital

See also: Hospital and hôpital

English

Etymology

A room in a hospital

Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). .

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈhɑs.pɪ.t̬l̩/
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Noun

hospital (plural hospitals)

1. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.

   Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital. (UK)

   Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital. (US)

2. A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
3. (obsolete) A place of lodging.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]

Synonyms

• sickhouse

Related terms

• hospice
• hospitable
• hospitality
• host

صْبِيطَار

Translations

large medical facility

• Abkhaz: ахәшәтәырҭа (axʷŝʷtʷʼərta)
• Afrikaans: hospitaal
• Albanian: spital (sq) m
• Amharic: ሐኪም ቤት (ḥäkim bet), ሆስፒታል (hospital)
• Arabic: مُسْتَشْفًى m (mustašfan), مَارِسْتَان m (māristān)

  Moroccan Arabic: صبيطار m (ṣbiṭar)

• Aragonese: espital m
• Armenian: հիվանդանոց (hy) (hivandanocʻ)
• Assamese: হস্পিতাল (hospital)
• Asturian: hospital m
• Azeri: xəstəxana (az), qospital
• Baluchi: اسپتال (ispatāl)
• Bashkir: хәстәхана (xəstəxana)
• Basque: ospitale, erietxe
• Belarusian: бальні́ца f (balʹníca), шпiта́ль m (špitálʹ), ляка́рня f (ljakárnja)
• Bengali: হাসপাতাল (haśpatal)
• Bole: azibiti
• Bulgarian: бо́лница (bg) f (bólnica)
• Burmese: ဆေးရုံ (my) (hce:rum)
• Catalan: hospital (ca) m
• Central Dusun: lamin pongusapan
• Chechen: больница (bolʲnica)
• Cheyenne: naa'émâhéó'o
• Chichewa: chipatala
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 醫院／医院 (ji¹ jyun^6-2), 医院 (ji¹ jyun⁶)

  Mandarin: 醫院／医院 (zh) (yīyuàn), 医院 (zh) (yīyuàn)

• Chuvash: пульница (pulʹnitsa)
• Crimean Tatar: hastahane, şifahane
• Czech: nemocnice (cs) f, špitál (cs) m (dated, colloquial)
• Danish: hospital (da) n, sygehus (da) n
• Dhivehi: އަސްފަތާލު (asfatālu), ހޮސްޕިޓަލު (hospiṭalu)
• Dutch: ziekenhuis (nl) n, hospitaal (nl) n, gasthuis (nl) n
• Erzya: ормакудо (ormakudo)
• Esperanto: malsanulejo, hospitalo
• Estonian: haigla (et)
• Ewe: atikewɔƒe n, kɔdzi n
• Faroese: sjúkrahús n
• Fiji Hindi: aspataal
• Finnish: sairaala (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: hèpetâl m
• French: hôpital (fr) m
• Friulian: ospedâl m
• Galician: hospital (gl) m
• Georgian: საავადმყოფო (saavadmq̇opo), ჰოსპიტალი (hosṗiṭali)
• German: Krankenhaus (de) n, Spital (de) n (regional or dated)
• Greek: νοσοκομείο (el) n (nosokomeío)
• Greenlandic: napparsimmavik
• Guaraní: tasyo
• Gujarati: રુગ્ણાલય (rugṇālya), ઈસ્પિતાલ (īspitāl)
• Hausa: asibiti (ha)
• Hebrew: בֵּית חוֹלִים (he) m (beit kholím)
• Hiligaynon: ospital, klinika, bululngan
• Hindi: रुग्णालय m (rugṇālay), अस्पताल (hi) m (aspatāl)
• Hungarian: kórház (hu)
• Icelandic: sjúkrahús (is) n, spítali (is) m
• Indonesian: rumah sakit (id)
• Interlingua: hospital
• Inuktitut: ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᒃ (aanniafik)
• Irish: ospidéal (ga) m
• Istriot: uspadal m
• Italian: ospedale (it) m
• Japanese: 病院 (ja) (びょういん, byōin)
• Kannada: ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ (kn) (āspatre)
• Kazakh: аурухана (kk) (auruxana)
• Khmer: មន្ទីរពេទ្យ (mʊəntii pɛɛt)
• Korean: 병원 (ko) (byeong'won) (病院 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: , ,

  Sorani: نەخۆشخانە (nexoşxane), خەستەخانە (xestexane)

• Kyrgyz: оорукана (ky) (oorukana)
• Lao: ໂຮງໝໍ (lo) (hōng mǭ), ໂຮງພະຢາບານ (hōng pha yā bān)
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• Latin: nosocomium (la), valetudinarium (la)
• Latvian: slimnīca f
• Lingala: ndáko ya bokɔnɔ, lopitálo
• Lithuanian: ligoninė f
• Lombard: ospedal
• Luxembourgish: Spidol n
• Macedonian: бо́лница f (bólnica)
• Malagasy: hopitaly (mg)
• Malay: hospital, rumah sakit
• Malayalam: ആശുപത്രി (ml) (āśupatri)
• Maltese: sptar
• Marathi: रुग्णालय (rugṇālay)
• Mongolian: эмнэлэг (mn) (emneleg), госпиталь (gospitalʹ), больниц (mn) (bolʹnic)
• Navajo: azeeʼálʼį́
• Nepali: चिकित्सालय (ne) (cikitsālaya), अस्पताल (ne) (aspatāl)
• Ngamo: janar
• Norwegian: sykehus (no) n
• Occitan: espital (oc) m, espitau (oc) m
• Old English: læcehus n
• Oriya: ଡାକ୍ତରଖାନା (ḍāktarakhānā)
• Ossetian: рынчындон (rynḱyndon)
• Papiamentu: hòspital
• Pashto: روغتون (ps) m (roǧtun), شفاخانه (ps) f (šafāxāná), هاسپيټل m (hāspiṭál), هسپټال m (hasрaṭãl)
• Persian: بیمارستان (fa) (bimârestân)
• Pitjantjatjara: atjupitila
• Polish: szpital (pl) m
• Portuguese: hospital (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਹਸਪਤਾਲ (pa) m (haspatāl)
• Quechua: unquna wasi
• Romanian: spital (ro) n
• Russian: больни́ца (ru) f (bolʹníca), го́спиталь (ru) m (góspitalʹ) (usually a military hospital), кли́ника (ru) f (klínika), лече́бница (ru) f (lečébnica)
• Rusyn: бо́лниця f (bólnycja), шпiта́ль m (špitálʹ), шпiта́льня f (špitálʹnja)
• Samoan: falema'i
• Sanskrit: चिकित्सालय m (cikitsālaya)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-leighis m, taigh-eiridinn m, taigh-tinnis m, ospadal m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: болница f

  Roman: bolnica (sh) f

• Shona: chipatara
• Sindhi: اسپتال (sd) f (ispatāl)
• Sinhalese: ආරෝග්‍යශාලා (ārōgyaśālā)
• Slovak: nemocnica (sk) f
• Slovene: bolnišnica f, bolnica (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: chórownja f

  Upper Sorbian: chorownja f

• Spanish: hospital (es) m
• Swahili: hospitali (sw)
• Swedish: sjukhus (sv) n
• Tagalog: ospital (tl), pagamutan
• Tajik: бемористон (tg) (bemoriston), касалхона (kasalxona), беморхона (tg) (bemorxona)
• Tamil: மருத்துவமனை (ta) (maruttuvamaṉai)
• Tatar: хастаханә (xastaxanä), шифаханә (tt) (şifaxanä)
• Telugu: ఆసుపత్రి (te) (āsupatri)
• Tetum: ospitál, uma-moras
• Thai: โรงพยาบาล (th) (roong-pá-yaa-baan)
• Tibetan: སྨན་ཁང (sman khang)
• Tigrinya: ሆስፒታል (hospital), ቤት ሕክምና (bet ḥəkməna)
• Tok Pisin: haus sik
• Turkish: hastane (tr)
• Turkmen: keselhana, gospital

  Cyrillic: кеселхана, госпитал

• Ukrainian: ліка́рня f (likárnja), шпiта́ль m (špitálʹ), болни́ця f (bolnýcja)
• Urdu: اسپتال m (aspatāl)
• Uyghur: دوختورخانا (doxtorxana), دوختۇرخانا (doxturxana)
• Uzbek: kasalxona (uz), shifoxona (uz)
• Venetian: ospedal m, ospeal m
• Vietnamese: bệnh viện (vi), nhà thương (vi)
• Warray: baláy-tambalan
• Welsh: ysbyty (cy) m
• Yiddish: שפּיטאָל m (shpitol)
• Zhuang: yihyen

Adjective

hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)

1. (obsolete) Hospitable.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     At last the Ocean, that hospital friend to the wretched, opened her capacious arms to receive him; and he instantly resolved to accept her kind invitation.

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Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from , from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitales)

1. hospital (building)

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from , noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited .

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitals)

1. hospital

Related terms

• hospitalitat
• hospici
• hostal
• hoste

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from , borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: os‧pi‧tal

Noun

hospital

1. a hospital; a large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment

Synonyms

• (a hospital): ospital, tambalanan

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from , from the neuter form of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest, stranger”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /hɔspitaːl/, [hɔsb̥iˈtˢæːˀl] or (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /hospitaːl/, [hosb̥iˈtˢæːˀl]

Noun

hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)

1. hospital

Inflection

Declension of hospital

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hospital	hospitalet	hospitaler	hospitalerne
genitive	hospitals	hospitalets	hospitalers	hospitalernes

Synonyms

• sygehus n

Further reading

• hospital on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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French

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitaux)

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Obsolete spelling of hôpital.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from , from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitais)

1. hospital

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /hos.piˈtal/

Adjective

hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)

1. hospitable

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Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from , from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /hɔspital/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ital, -tal, -al

Noun

hospital (plural hospital-hospital)

1. hospital (building)

Synonyms

• rumah sakit

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), borrowed from from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitaulx)

1. hospital (medical)

Descendants

• French: hôpital

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from , from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Compare the inherited ostel.

Noun

hospital oblique singular, m (oblique plural hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative singular hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative plural hospital)

1. hospital (medical)

Descendants

• Middle French: hospital
  • French: hôpital

Adjective

hospital m (oblique and nominative feminine singular hospitale)

1. hospitable; welcoming

Declension

Declension of hospital

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	hospitals, hospitaus	hospitale	hospital
	Oblique	hospital			hospitale	hospital
Plural	Subject	hospital	hospitales		hospital
	Oblique	hospitals, hospitaus			hospitales	hospital

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from , from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited .

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɔʃ.piˈtaɫ/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /os.piˈtaw/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitais)

1. hospital

Synonyms

• nosocómio

Derived terms

• hospitalar
• hospitalizar

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from , from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). .

Noun

hospital m (plural es)

1. hospital

Related terms

• hospitalidad
• hospicio
• hostal
• hospedar
• huésped

See also

• clínica

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Swedish

Noun

hospital n

1. (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital

Declension

Declension of hospital
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hospital	hospitalet	hospital	hospitalen
Genitive	hospitals	hospitalets	hospitals	hospitalens