خدمت

خدمت (form I)

1. خَدَمْتُ (ḵadamtu) /xa.dam.tu/: first-person singular past active of خَدَمَ (ḵadama)
2. خَدَمْتَ (ḵadamta) /xa.dam.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of خَدَمَ (ḵadama)
3. خَدَمْتِ (ḵadamti) /xa.dam.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of خَدَمَ (ḵadama)
4. خَدَمَتْ (ḵadamat) /xa.da.mat/: third-person feminine singular past active of خَدَمَ (ḵadama)
5. خُدِمْتُ (ḵudimtu) /xu.dim.tu/: first-person singular past passive of خَدَمَ (ḵadama)
6. خُدِمْتَ (ḵudimta) /xu.dim.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of خَدَمَ (ḵadama)
7. خُدِمْتِ (ḵudimti) /xu.dim.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of خَدَمَ (ḵadama)
8. خُدِمَتْ (ḵudimat) /xu.di.mat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of خَدَمَ (ḵadama)

• خذمت (hızmet, hizmet)

From Arabic خِدْمَة (ḵidma, “service, official duty”).

خدمت • (hidmet or hizmet) (plural خدمات (hidemat))

1. service, an act of being of assistance to someone

   Synonym: قوللق (kulluk)

2. (economics) service, the practice of providing assistance as economic activity
3. duty, that which one is morally or legally obligated to do
4. employment, the work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid

• Turkish: hizmet
• → Albanian: hyzmet
• → Armenian: խըզմէթ (xəzmētʻ), խըզմա̈թ (xəzmätʻ)
• → Aromanian: huzmeti, huzmete, uzmeti, iuzmeti
• → Bulgarian: хизме́т (hizmét), изме́т (izmét), хюзме́т (hjuzmét)
• → Greek: χοσμέτι (chosméti), χουσμέτι (chousméti)
• → Macedonian: измет (izmet)
• → Romanian: huzmét
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: хѝзмет, ѝзмет

  Latin script: hìzmet, ìzmet

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hizmet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1976
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “خدمت”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 447
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خدمت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 532
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Servitium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1549
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خدمت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 1867
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hizmet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خدمت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 834

• خذمت (xezmat) (dialectal, Mashhad, Southwestern Fars, Tajik, otherwise archaic)
• خذمد (xezmad) (dialectal, Birjand)^[1]

Borrowed from Arabic خِدْمَة (ḵidma), from خَدَمَ (ḵadama).

• (Mashhad) IPA^(key): [xez.mǽt̪]
• (Birjand) IPA^(key): [xez.mǽd̪̥]

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خِدمَت • (xedmat) (plural خدمات (xadamât))

1. service

   خدمت سربازی ― xedmat-e sarbâzi ― military service

   در خدمتتان هستم ― dar xedmat-tân hastam ― I am at your service

2. employment, work

(verbs)

(others)

Borrowed from Classical Persian خِدْمَت (xidmat), borrowed from Arabic خِدْمَة (ḵidma), from خَدَمَ (ḵadama).^[1] First attested in c. 1603 as Middle Hindi خدمت (xdmt /⁠xidmat⁠/).^[2]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɪd̪.mət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: خِد‧مَت

خِدْمَت • (xidmat) f (formal plural خِدْمَات (xidmāt), Hindi spelling ख़िदमत)

1. service (ie. help; contribution, typically volunteering)

   Synonym: سیوَا (sevā)

2. service; employment (as part of work; job etc.)
3. (formal) presence; obedience (ie. in the presence of someone)
4. (by extension) discipleship

• “خدمت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “خدمت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]