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)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• خذمت (hızmet, hizmet)

Etymology

From Arabic خِدْمَة (ḵidma, “service, official duty”).

Noun

خدمت • (hidmet or hizmet) (plural خدمات (hidemat))

1. service, an act of being of assistance to someone

   Synonym: قوللق (kulluk)

2. (economics) service, the practice of providing assistance as economic activity
3. duty, that which one is morally or legally obligated to do
4. employment, the work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid

Derived terms

• خدمت گورمك (hizmet görmek, “to serve”)
• خدمتجی (hizmetci, “servant”)
• خدمتكار (hizmetkâr, “servant”)

 

Descendants

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

  Cyrillic script: хѝзмет, ѝзмет

  Latin script: hìzmet, ìzmet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hizmet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1976
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “خدمت”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 447
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خدمت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 532
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Servitium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1549
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خدمت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1867
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hizmet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خدمت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 834

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خِدْمَة (ḵidma).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xið.ˈmat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɪd̪.mǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɪd̪.mǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɪd̪.mǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xid̪.mǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xed̪.mǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χid̪.mǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	xiḏmat
Dari reading?	xidmat
Iranian reading?	xedmat
Tajik reading?	xidmat

Noun

Dari	خدمت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хизмат

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

1. service

   خدمت سربازی ― xedmat-e sarbâzi ― military service

   در خدمتتان هستم ― dar xedmat-tân hastam ― I am at your service

2. employment, work

Derived terms

(verbs)

• خدمت کردن (xedmat kardan)

 

(others)

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

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: xidmət
• → Bengali: খেদমত (khedomot)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خدمت (hidmet), خذمت (hızmet, hizmet)
  • Turkish: hizmet
  • → Albanian: hyzmet
  • → Armenian: խըզմէթ (xəzmētʻ), խըզմա̈թ (xəzmätʻ)
  • → Aromanian: huzmeti, huzmete, uzmeti, iuzmeti
  • → Bulgarian: хизме́т (hizmét), изме́т (izmét), хюзме́т (hjuzmét)
  • → Greek: χοσμέτι (chosméti), χουσμέτι (chousméti)
  • → Macedonian: измет (izmet)
  • → Romanian: huzmét
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хѝзмет, ѝзмет

    Latin script: hìzmet, ìzmet

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

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