حکیم

Borrowed from Arabic حَكِيم (ḥakīm).

حَکیم • (hakim) (plural حکیمان)

1. sage, wise man
   • c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, کشکول‎^[1]:

     اسکندر که بمرد، در تابوتی از طلایش نهادند و به اسکندریه‌اش بردند و گروهی از حکیمان بر وی زاری کردند.

     iskandar ki bimurd, dar tābūtē az talāy-aš nihādand u ba iskandariyya-aš burdand u gurōhē az hakīmān bar way zārī kardand.

     When Alexander died, they put him in a golden coffin and took him to Alexandria, and a group of sages mourned for him.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

2. (archaic) doctor, physician

   Synonyms: پزشک (pezešk), دکتر (doktor), داکتر (dāktar), (dated) حکیم‌باشی (hakim-bâši)

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: हकीम (hakīm)

  Urdu: حَکِیم (hakīm)

  • → English: hakim
• → Gujarati: હકીમ (hakīm)
• → Punjabi: ਹਕੀਮ (hakīm)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “حکیم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦə.kiːm/

حَکِیم • (hakīm) m (Hindi spelling हकीम)

1. physician, doctor
2. sage, philosopher
3. (Islam) one of the 99 names of Allah
4. statesman

• “حکیم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “حکیم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.