خدمت

خدمت

Arabic

Verb

خَدَمْتُ • (ḵadamtu) (form I)

1. first-person singular past active of خَدَمَ‎ (ḵadama)

Verb

خُدِمْتُ • (ḵudimtu) (form I)

1. first-person singular past passive of خَدَمَ‎ (ḵadama)

Verb

خَدَمْتَ • (ḵadamta) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular past active of خَدَمَ‎ (ḵadama)

Verb

خُدِمْتَ • (ḵudimta) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular past passive of خَدَمَ‎ (ḵadama)

Verb

خَدَمْتِ • (ḵadamti) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular past active of خَدَمَ‎ (ḵadama)

Verb

خُدِمْتِ • (ḵudimti) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular past passive of خَدَمَ‎ (ḵadama)

Verb

خَدَمَتْ • (ḵadamat) (form I)

1. third-person feminine singular past active of خَدَمَ‎ (ḵadama)

Verb

خُدِمَتْ • (ḵudimat) (form I)

1. third-person feminine singular past passive of خَدَمَ‎ (ḵadama)

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• خذمت‎ (hızmet, hizmet)

Etymology

From Arabic خِدْمَة‎ (ḵidma).

Noun

خدمت • (hidmet or hizmet)

1. employment
2. ministration
3. service

Descendants

• Turkish: hizmet
• → Albanian: hyzmet
• → Aromanian: huzmeti, huzmete, uzmeti, iuzmeti
• → Bulgarian: хизме́т (hizmét), изме́т (izmét), хюзме́т (hjuzmét)
• → Greek: χοσμέτι (chosméti), χουσμέτι (chousméti)
• → Macedonian: хизмет (hizmet), измет (izmet)
• → Romanian: huzmét
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хѝзмет, ѝзмет

  Latin: hìzmet, ìzmet

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “خدمت”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 447
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hizmet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خدمت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 834

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic خِدْمَة‎ (ḵidma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /xiðˈmat/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /xɪdˈmat/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /xedˈmæt/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /xidˈmat/

Noun

Dari	خدمت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хидмат (xidmat)

خِدمَت • (xedmat) (plural خِدمات‎ (xedmât))

1. service

   ‏خدمت سربازی‎ ― xedmat-e sarbâzi ― military service

2. employment, work

Derived terms

(verbs)

• خدمت کردن‎ (xedmat kardan)

 

(others)

• خدمتانه‎ (xedmatâne)
• خدمتکار‎ (xedmatkâr)
• خدمت گزار‎ (xedmat-gozâr)
• خدمتی‎ (xedmati)
• پیشخدمت‎ (piš-xedmat)

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: xidmət
• → Hindustani: xidmat
• → Ottoman Turkish: خدمت‎ (hidmet), خذمت‎ (hızmet, hizmet)
  • Turkish: hizmet
  • → Albanian: hyzmet
  • → Aromanian: huzmeti, huzmete, uzmeti, iuzmeti
  • → Bulgarian: хизме́т (hizmét), изме́т (izmét), хюзме́т (hjuzmét)
  • → Greek: χοσμέτι (chosméti), χουσμέτι (chousméti)
  • → Macedonian: хизмет (hizmet), измет (izmet)
  • → Romanian: huzmét
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: хѝзмет, ѝзмет

    Latin: hìzmet, ìzmet

  • Urdu: خدمت‎
  • Hindi: ख़िदमत
• → Kazakh: қызмет (qyzmet)
• → Kyrgyz: кызмат (kızmat)
• → Punjabi: خدمت‎
• → Uyghur: خىزمەت‎ (xizmet)
• → Uzbek: xizmat
• → Turkmen: hyzmat

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خِدْمَة‎ (ḵidma), from the root خ د م‎ (ḵ-d-m).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɪd̪.mət̪/

Noun

خدمت • (xidmat) f (Hindi spelling ख़िदमत)

1. service, labour

   Synonym: سیوا‎ (sevā)

Declension

Declension of خدمت
	singular	plural
direct	خدمت‎ (xidmat)	خدمتیں‎ (xidmatẽ)
oblique	خدمت‎ (xidmat)	خدمتوں‎ (xidmatõ)
vocative	خدمت‎ (xidmat)	خدمتو‎ (xidmato)

Derived terms

• خدمت گار‎ (xidmat-gār)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “ख़िदमत”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press