ఆసుపత్రి
Telugu edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese hospital or espital, compare Kannada ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ (āspatre), Malayalam ആശുപത്രി (āśupatri), Tamil ஆஸ்பத்திரி (āspattiri).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ఆసుపత్రి • (āsupatri) n (plural ఆసుపత్రులు)
References edit
- "ఆసుపత్రి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1404
- Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003) “Loanwords from western languages: Portuguese and English”, in The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 479