بیماری

Persian

Etymology

From بیمار (bêmâr) +‎ ـی (i).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [beː.mɑː.ˈɾiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beː.mɑː.ɾíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beː.mɑː.ɾíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [beː.mɑː.ɾíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [beː.mɔː.ɾí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [biː.mɒː.ɹíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [be.mɔ.ɾí]

Readings
Classical reading?	bēmārī
Dari reading?	bēmārī
Iranian reading?	bimâri
Tajik reading?	bemori

Noun

Dari	بیماری
Iranian Persian
Tajik	беморӣ

بیماری • (bimâri) (plural بیماری‌ها (bimâri-hâ))

1. illness
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1433:

     حاش لله از کمال جاه او
     کابر بیماری بپوشد ماه او

     hāš Allāh az kāmal-i jāh-i ō
     k-abr-i bēmārī bi-pōšad māh-i ō

     God forbid, in view of the perfection of his (spiritual) attainments,
     that the cloud of sickness should cover his moon!

2. disease

Derived terms

• بیماری ایدز (bimâri-ye eydz)
• بیماری‌زا (bimâri-zâ)
• بیماری قند (bimâri-ye qand)

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁-

Middle Persian -ār

Middle Persian wymʾl

Persian بیمار

Persian ـی

Classical Persian بیمَارِی (bēmārī)bor.

Urdu بیماری (bemārī)

Borrowed from Classical Persian بیمَارِی (bēmārī). By surface analysis, بیمار (bīmār) +‎ ی (ī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /biː.mɑː.ɾiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: بی‧ما‧ری

Noun

بِیماری • (bīmārī) f (Hindi spelling बीमारी)

1. illness, disease

   Synonyms: مَرْض (marz), روگ (rog)

Declension

Declension of بیماری
	singular	plural
direct	بیماری (bīmārī)	بیمارِیاں (bīmāriyā̃)
oblique	بیماری (bīmārī)	بیمارِیوں (bīmāriyō̃)
vocative	بیماری (bīmārī)	بیمارِیو (bīmāriyō)

References

• “بیماری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بیماری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.