مستشفى

Noun of place of the verb اِسْتَشْفَى (istašfā, “to seek a cure”) from the root ش ف ي (š f y); literally “place for seeking a cure”, arising in the end of the 19th century at first as a euphemism, displacing the medieval مَارِسْتَان (māristān) that is now if not used historically rather a word for an insane asylum.

• IPA^(key): /mus.taʃ.fan/

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مُسْتَشْفًى • (mustašfan) m (construct state مُسْتَشْفَى (mustašfā), dual مُسْتَشْفَيَانِ (mustašfayāni), plural مُسْتَشْفَيَات (mustašfayāt))

1. hospital

   خُذْنِي إِلَى الْمُسْتَشْفَى. ― ḵuḏnī ʔilā al-mustašfā. ― Take me to the hospital.

• مَشْفًى (mašfan)
• مَارِسْتَان (māristān), بِيمَارِسْتَان (bīmāristān) (historical)
• خَسْتَخَانَة (ḵastaḵāna) (Iraq, Syria)
• سْبِيطَار (sbīṭār) (Maghreb), إِسْبِيطَار (ʔisbīṭār) (Galilee), سْبِيتَار (sbītār) (Oman, Gulf, Palestine)
• قَشْلَة (qašla) (Egypt 19th century)

• Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 17–19

Learned borrowing from Arabic مُسْتَشْفًى (mustašfan).

• IPA^(key): /mus.taʃ.fa/, [mʊsˈtaʃ.fa]

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مستشفى • (mustašfa) m (plural مستشفيات (mustašfayāt))

1. hospital

   Synonym: (Galilee) إسبيطار (ʔisbīṭār)

• عيادة (ʕiyāde, “clinic”)