عیادت

Borrowed from Arabic عِيَادَة (ʕiyāda).

عیادت • ('iyâdat, 'eyâdat, 'ayâdat)

1. visit (to the sick)
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3382:

     چون عیادت بهر دل آرامی است
     این عیادت نیست دشمن کامی است

     čôn 'iyâdat bahr-i-dil-i-ârami ast
     ên 'idâyat nist dušman-i-kâmi ast

     Inasmuch as visiting the sick is for the purpose of (giving them) tranquillity,
     this is not a visit to the sick: it is the satisfaction of an enemy's wish.

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: इयादत (iyādat), अयादत (ayādat)

  Urdu: عِیَادَت (ʻiyādat, ʻayādat)

Borrowed from Classical Persian عیادت ('iyādat, “visitation of the sick”), itself from Arabic عِيَادَة (ʕiyāda, “visit, consultation”) - verbal noun of عَادَ (ʕāda, “to visit a patient”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪ.jɑː.d̪ət̪/, /ə.jɑː.d̪ət̪/

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• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: عِ‧یا‧دَت

عِیَادَت or عَیَادَت • (ʻiyādat or ʻayādat) f (formal plural عیادات ('yādāt), Hindi spelling अयादत or इयादत)

1. enquiry or visit of well-being (of a patient or sick person)
   • 1942, نیاز فتح پوری [Niaz Fatehpuri], مذاکرات نیاز یا مقالات [muẕākarāt niyaz ya maqālāt]‎^[1], Lucknow: United Press India, →OCLC, page 168:

     آخر ذرا کھڑے کھڑے ایک صاحب کی عیادت کے لیے چلے گئے

     āxir ẕarā khaṛe khaṛe ek ṣāḥib kī ʻiyādat ke liye cale ga'ye

     In the end, they promptly made their way to visit a [sick] gentlemen

• “عیادت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “عیادت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عيادت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.