شفا خانہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شِفَاخَانَه (šifāxāna). By surface analysis, شفا (šifā, “healing”) +‎ خَانَہ (xāna, “area”).

Pronunciation

Noun

شِفا خانَہ • (śifā xāna) m (Hindi spelling शिफ़ा ख़ाना)

  1. hospital, clinic, lazaretto

References

  • “خانہ شفا خانہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “خانہ شفا خانہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.