köken: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قیشله (kışla, “barracks”). The sense of a hospital derives as a euphemism employed by soldiers. All senses are outdated in literary use and belong to the 19ᵗʰ century but this word is still used in names of specific objects.
ضباط الصف والأنفار الذين بصدد الخروج من القشلة يشرع كل واحد منهم في لبس قيافته المقننة بعد ضرب نوبة الجمعية.
köken: Attested since the Song dynasty, contemporary usage is reinforced by Japanese 病(びょう)院(いん) (byōin); Dungan is calque of Russian больница (bolʹnica).
hospital · any facility for healing or treatment of people, animals, or things · a medical facility capable of handling 30 or more patients at a time
köken: Sino-Korean word from 病院, from 病 (“sickness”) + 院 (“house”), an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 病院(びょういん) (byōin) and cognate with Jeju 벵완 (beng'wan).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis Latin hospitālis Late Latin hospitāle Old Galician-Portuguese espital Portuguese espitalbor. ▲ English hospitalinflu. Hindi अस्पताल Borrowed from Portuguese espital, influenced by English hospital.
köken: From Swedish klinik, from French clinique, from Late Latin clinicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλινικός (klinikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλίνη (klínē, “bed”), from κλίνειν (klínein, “to lean, incline”).
From French clinique, from Late Latin clinicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλινικός (klinikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλίνη (klínē, “bed”), from κλίνειν (klínein, “to lean, incline”).