больница

• болница (bolnica)

By surface analysis, больный (bolʹnyj) +‎ -ица (-ica). Cognate with Russian больни́ца (bolʹníca), which is from Middle Russian больница (bolʹnica), attested in 16-17ᵗʰ c., Church Slavonic больни́ца (bolĭníca).

больница • (bolʹnica) f

1. asylum (for the poor and sick, usually at a monastery)
2. hospital, clinic

• Belarusian: бальні́ца (balʹníca)
• Carpathian Rusyn: бо́лниця (bólnycja)
• Ukrainian: бо́льниця (bólʹnycja) (obsolete)

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “больница, болница”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 2 (биецъ – варивный), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 144
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1996), “больница, болница”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 3 (богъ – весъной), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 25

Inherited from Middle Russian больница (bolʹnica), attested in 16-17ᵗʰ c.[1] By surface analysis, боль (bolʹ) +‎ -ница (-nica). Cognate with Old Ruthenian больница (bolʹnica), болница (bolnica), Church Slavonic больни́ца (bolĭníca).

• IPA^(key): [bɐlʲˈnʲit͡sə]

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больни́ца • (bolʹníca) f inan (genitive больни́цы, nominative plural больни́цы, genitive plural больни́ц, relational adjective больни́чный, diminutive больни́чка)

1. hospital

   Synonyms: го́спиталь (góspitalʹ) (usually military); кли́ника (klínika)

   ложи́ться в больни́цу ― ložítʹsja v bolʹnícu ― to go to hospital (to be hospitalised)

• больно́й (bolʹnój)

• → Armenian: բալնիցա (balnicʻa), բալինցա (balincʻa)
• → Bezhta: балница (balnica)
• → Ingrian: bolnitsa
• → Karelian:
  • North Karelian: polʹničča
  • South Karelian: bolʹničča
• → Livvi: bolʹničču
• → Kazakh: бәлніс (bälnıs)
• → Mongolian:

  Cyrillic script: больниц (bolʹnic)

  Mongolian script: ᠪᠣᠯᠢᠨᠢᠼᠠ (bolinica)

• → Yakut: балыыһа (balııha)