בית חולים

Hebrew

Etymology

From בֵּית (bet, “house”) + חוֹלִים (kholím, “sick people, patients”).

Common enough by the year 1778 to be included in a reedition by the Italian Hebraist Giovanni Battista Gallizioli of Calepinus septem linguarum, hoc est Lexicon Latinum. Compare German Krankenhaus.

Pronunciation

  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈbet χoˈlim/
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Noun

בֵּית חוֹלִים • (bet kholím) m (plural indefinite בָּתֵּי חוֹלִים, no construct forms)

  1. hospital

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