Arabic edit

 
خَادِمَة

Etymology edit

Active participle of the verb خَدَمَ (ḵadama, to serve). From the root خ د م (ḵ-d-m).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /xaː.dim/
  • (file)

Noun edit

خَادِمْ (ḵādimm (plural خَادِمُونَ (ḵādimūna) or خُدَّام (ḵuddām) or خَدَمَة (ḵadama), feminine خَادِم (ḵādim) or خَادِمَة (ḵādima))

  1. domestic servant or (male) manservant (female) maidservant
  2. employee
  3. attendant
  4. waiter (restaurant server)
  5. (Christianity) deacon

Declension edit

Descendants edit

Noun edit

خَادِم (ḵādimm npers (plural خَوَادِم (ḵawādim))

  1. (computing) server
    Synonyms: خَادُوم (ḵādūm), مُلَقِّم (mulaqqim)

Declension edit

References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خادم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 467
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خادم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 712
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “خادم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 267

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic خادم (ḵādim).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

خادِم (xādimm (formal plural خُدام (xudām), Hindi spelling ख़ादिम)

  1. domestic servant or (male) manservant
  2. employee, volunteer
  3. attendant
  4. waiter (restaurant server)

Synonyms edit

See also edit