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حکیم

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See also: حكيم and حكیم

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic حَكِيم (ḥakīm).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? hakīm
Dari reading? hakīm
Iranian reading? hakim
Tajik reading? hakim

Noun

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Dari حکیم
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҳаким

حَکیم (hakim) (plural حکیمان (hakimân))

  1. sage, wise man
    • c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, کشکول[1]:
      اسکندر که بمرد، در تابوتی از طلایش نهادند و به اسکندریه‌اش بردند و گروهی از حکیمان بر وی زاری کردند.
      iskandar ki bimurd, dar tābūtē az talāy-aš nihādand u ba iskandariyya-aš burdand u gurōhē az hakīmān bar way zārī kardand.
      When Alexander died, they put him in a golden coffin and took him to Alexandria, and a group of sages mourned for him.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
  2. (archaic) doctor, physician
    Synonyms: پزشک (pezešk), دکتر (doktor), داکتر (dāktar), (dated) حکیم‌باشی (hakim-bâši)

Descendants

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  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: हकीम (hakīm)
    Urdu: حَکِیم (hakīm)
  • Gujarati: હકીમ (hakīm)
  • Punjabi: ਹਕੀਮ (hakīm)

Further reading

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian حکیم (hakīm), from Arabic حَكِيم (ḥakīm). Compare Punjabi ਹਕੀਮ (hakīm) / حکیم (hakīm), Gujarati હકીમ (hakīm).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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حَکِیم (hakīmm (Hindi spelling हकीम)

  1. physician, doctor
  2. sage, philosopher
  3. (Islam) one of the 99 names of Allah
  4. statesman

References

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