English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin infirmaria, from Latin infirmus.
Pronunciation
Noun
infirmary (plural infirmaries)
- A place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital; sickhouse.
2015, Minister for Home Affairs, “Regulation 7”, in Prevention of Terrorism (Detained Persons) Regulations 2015[1], archived from the original on 28 August 2023, page 92:There shall be provided an infirmary or a place for the treatment of sick detained person in every place of detention.
- A clinic or dispensary within another institution.
Translations
place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital
- Arabic: مُسْتَشْفًى (ar) m (mustašfan), مَشْفًى (ar) m (mašfan)
- Basque: erizaindegi
- Belarusian: лазарэ́т m (lazarét), медпу́нкт m (mjedpúnkt) (e.g. at school, factory), санча́сць f (sančáscʹ) (especially military)
- Bulgarian: лазаре́т (bg) m (lazarét)
- Catalan: infermeria (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 醫院 / 医院 (zh) (yīyuàn), 保健室 (zh) (bǎojiànshì)
- Corsican: infirmaria (co) f
- Czech: špitál (cs) m, lazaret (cs) m
- Esperanto: malsanulejo
- Estonian: laatsaret, arstituba, kliinik sg, kliinikud pl
- Finnish: sairastupa
- French: infirmerie (fr) f
- Galician: enfermaría (gl) f (archaic)
- German: Krankenhaus (de) n, Krankenstation (de) f, Ambulanz (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: ὑγιαστήριον n (hugiastḗrion), νοσοκομεῖον n (nosokomeîon) (Koine)
- Indonesian: ruang kesehatan
- Italian: infermeria (it) f
- Japanese: 病院 (ja) (びょういん, byōin)
- Korean: 병원(病院) (ko) (byeong'won)
- Latin: valētūdinārium (la) n
- Macedonian: ла́зарет m (lázaret)
- Polish: infirmeria (pl) f, izba chorych f
- Portuguese: enfermaria (pt) f
- Russian: лазаре́т (ru) m (lazarét), (e.g. at school, factory) медпу́нкт (ru) m (medpúnkt), (especially military) санча́сть (ru) f (sančástʹ)
- Sicilian: nfirmarìa (scn) f
- Spanish: enfermería (es) f
- Swedish: sjukstuga (sv) c
- Ukrainian: лазаре́т (uk) m (lazarét), медпу́нкт m (medpúnkt) (e.g. at school, factory), санчасти́на f (sančastýna) (especially military)
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clinic or dispensary within another institution
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