عیادت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِيَادَة (ʕiyāda).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔi.jaː.ˈdat/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.jɑː.d̪ät̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.jɑː.d̪ät̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɔː.d̪ät̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɒː.d̪æt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɔ.d̪ät̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	iyādat
Dari reading^?	ayādat
Iranian reading^?	iyâdat
Tajik reading^?	'iyodat

Noun


Iranian Persian	عیادت
Dari	عیادت
Tajik	иёдат

عیادت • ('iyâdat, 'eyâdat, 'ayâdat)

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.

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
Hindi: इयादत (iyādat), अयादत (ayādat)

Urdu: عِیَادَت (ʻiyādat, ʻayādat)

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪ.jɑː.d̪ət̪/
(colloqial) IPA^(key): [ə.jɑː.d̪ət̪]
Audio (Pakistan): (file)
Rhymes: -ət̪
Hyphenation: عِ‧یا‧دَت

Noun

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

enquiry or visit of well-being (of a patient or sick person)
Synonym: بِیمَار پُرْسی (bīmār pursī)
- 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 made their way to visit a [sick] gentlemen impromptu

Declension

Declension of **عیادت**
	singular	plural
direct	عِیَادَت ('iyādat)	عِیَادَتیں ('iyādatẽ)
oblique	عِیَادَت ('iyādat)	عِیَادَتوں ('iyādatõ)
vocative	عِیَادَت ('iyādat)	عِیَادَتو ('iyādato)

Derived terms

عِیَادَت کَرْنا ('iyādat karnā, “to visit a sick person / patient”)

Further reading

“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.
Platts, John T. (1884), “عيادت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 767
Fallon, S. W. (1879), “عیادت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
John Shakespear (1834), “عیادت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC