больница

From больнъ (bolĭnŭ, “sick”) +‎ -ица (-ica).

больни́ца (bolĭníca) f

1. asylum (for the poor and sick, usually at a monastery)

• → Bulgarian: бо́лница (bólnica, “hospital”)
• → Macedonian: болница (bolnica, “hospital”)
• → Old East Slavic: больница (bolĭnica, “infirmary, hospital (usually at a monastery)”)
  • Old Ruthenian: больница (bolʹnica), болница (bolnica, “asylum; hospital”)
    • Belarusian: бальні́ца (balʹníca)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: бо́лниця (bólnycja)
      • → Pannonian Rusyn: больнїца (bolʹnjica)
    • Ukrainian: бо́льниця (bólʹnycja) (obsolete)
  • Russian: больни́ца (bolʹníca, “hospital”) (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: bolniță (dated)
• → Serbo-Croatian: bólnica / бо́лница (“hospital”)
• → Slovene: bọ̑lnica (“hospital”) (tonal orthography)

• Dyachenko, Grigory M. (1900) “больни́ца”, in Полный церковнославѧнскій словарь (in Russian), Moscow: Typography Wilde, page 55

• болница (bolnica)

By surface analysis, больный (bolʹnyj) +‎ -ица (-ica). Cognate with Russian больни́ца (bolʹníca), which is from Middle Russian больница (bolʹnica), attested in 16-17ᵗʰ c., Church Slavonic больни́ца (bolĭníca).

больница • (bolʹnica) f

1. asylum (for the poor and sick, usually at a monastery)
2. hospital, clinic

• Belarusian: бальні́ца (balʹníca)
• Carpathian Rusyn: бо́лниця (bólnycja)
  • → Pannonian Rusyn: больнїца (bolʹnjica)
• Ukrainian: бо́льниця (bólʹnycja) (obsolete)

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “больница, болница”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы (in Belarusian), numbers 2 (биецъ – варивный), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 144
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1996), “больница, болница”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. (in Ukrainian), numbers 3 (богъ – весъной), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 25

Inherited from Middle Russian больница (bolʹnica), attested in 16-17ᵗʰ c. By surface analysis, боль (bolʹ) +‎ -ница (-nica). Cognate with Old Ruthenian больница (bolʹnica), болница (bolnica), Church Slavonic больни́ца (bolĭníca).

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больни́ца • (bolʹníca) f inan (genitive больни́цы, nominative plural больни́цы, genitive plural больни́ц, relational adjective больни́чный, diminutive больни́чка)

1. hospital

   Synonyms: го́спиталь (góspitalʹ) (usually military); кли́ника (klínika)

   ложи́ться в больни́цу ― ložítʹsja v bolʹnícu ― to go to hospital (to be hospitalised)

   • 1887, Антон Чехов , Беглец, Санкт-Петербург: Петербургская газета; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The Runaway, 1922:

     — Ну, слу́шай, ба́ба. Ма́зями да ка́плями тут не помо́жешь. На́до его́ в больни́це оста́вить.

     — Nu, slúšaj, bába. Mázjami da kápljami tut ne pomóžešʹ. Nádo jevó v bolʹníce ostávitʹ.

     "Well, listen, woman. You can do nothing with ointments and drops in this case. You must leave him in the hospital."

• о̀нкобольни́ца (ònkobolʹníca)

• больно́й (bolʹnój)

• → Armenian: բալնիցա (balnicʻa), բալինցա (balincʻa)
• → Bezhta: балница (balnica)
• → Ingrian: bolnitsa
• → Karelian:
  • North Karelian: polʹničča
  • South Karelian: bolʹničča
• → Livvi: bolʹničču
• → Kazakh: бәлніс (bälnıs)
• → Mongolian:

  Cyrillic script: больниц (bolʹnic)

  Mongolian script: ᠪᠣᠯᠢᠨᠢᠼᠠ (bolinica)

• → Yakut: балыыһа (balııha)