હકીમ

Gujarati

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

હકીમ • (hakīm) m

  1. doctor, physician (usually applied to one that uses Greek medical science and is Muslim)
    Synonyms: ચિકિત્સક (cikitsak), વૈદ્ય (vaidya), દાક્તર (dāktar), ભિષક (bhiṣak)
  2. thinker, scholar, wise man, philosopher
    Synonym: ફિલસૂફ (philsūph)
  3. (Islam) The Wise (one of the 99 names of Allah)

Derived terms
  • હકીમખાની (hakīmkhānī)
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