خدمة

Arabic

Root
خ د م (ḵ d m)
9 terms

Etymology

Compare خَدَمَ (ḵadama, “to serve”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xid.ma/

Noun

خِدْمَة • (ḵidma) f (plural خِدْمَات (ḵidmāt) or خِدَم (ḵidam))

verbal noun of خَدَمَ (ḵadama) (form I)
service, favour
أُرِيدُ مِنْكُمْ خِدْمَةً. ― ʔurīdu minkum ḵidmatan. ― I want a favour from you.
office
official duty
work
present to a king or superior, gift of homage

Declension

Declension of noun **خِدْمَة** (ḵidma)
singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	خِدْمَة ḵidma	الْخِدْمَة al-ḵidma	خِدْمَة ḵidmat
nominative	خِدْمَةٌ ḵidmatun	الْخِدْمَةُ al-ḵidmatu	خِدْمَةُ ḵidmatu
accusative	خِدْمَةً ḵidmatan	الْخِدْمَةَ al-ḵidmata	خِدْمَةَ ḵidmata
genitive	خِدْمَةٍ ḵidmatin	الْخِدْمَةِ al-ḵidmati	خِدْمَةِ ḵidmati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	خِدْمَتَيْن ḵidmatayn	الْخِدْمَتَيْن al-ḵidmatayn	خِدْمَتَيْ ḵidmatay
nominative	خِدْمَتَانِ ḵidmatāni	الْخِدْمَتَانِ al-ḵidmatāni	خِدْمَتَا ḵidmatā
accusative	خِدْمَتَيْنِ ḵidmatayni	الْخِدْمَتَيْنِ al-ḵidmatayni	خِدْمَتَيْ ḵidmatay
genitive	خِدْمَتَيْنِ ḵidmatayni	الْخِدْمَتَيْنِ al-ḵidmatayni	خِدْمَتَيْ ḵidmatay
plural	sound feminine plural‎; basic broken plural triptote
plural	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	خِدْمَات‎; خِدَم ḵidmāt‎; ḵidam	الْخِدْمَات‎; الْخِدَم al-ḵidmāt‎; al-ḵidam	خِدْمَات‎; خِدَم ḵidmāt‎; ḵidam
nominative	خِدْمَاتٌ‎; خِدَمٌ ḵidmātun‎; ḵidamun	الْخِدْمَاتُ‎; الْخِدَمُ al-ḵidmātu‎; al-ḵidamu	خِدْمَاتُ‎; خِدَمُ ḵidmātu‎; ḵidamu
accusative	خِدْمَاتٍ‎; خِدَمًا ḵidmātin‎; ḵidaman	الْخِدْمَاتِ‎; الْخِدَمَ al-ḵidmāti‎; al-ḵidama	خِدْمَاتِ‎; خِدَمَ ḵidmāti‎; ḵidama
genitive	خِدْمَاتٍ‎; خِدَمٍ ḵidmātin‎; ḵidamin	الْخِدْمَاتِ‎; الْخِدَمِ al-ḵidmāti‎; al-ḵidami	خِدْمَاتِ‎; خِدَمِ ḵidmāti‎; ḵidami

Descendants

→ Hausa: hidima
→ Malay: khidmat
- → Indonesian: khidmat
→ Persian: خدمت (xedmat), خذمت (xezmat) (dialectal, Mashhad, Southwestern Fars, Tajik, otherwise archaic), خذمد (xezmad) (dialectal, Birjand)
- → Azerbaijani: xidmət
- → Bengali: খেদমত (khedomot)
- → Hindustani:
  Hindi: ख़िदमत (xidmat)
  Urdu: خدمت (xidmat)
- → Kazakh: қызмет (qyzmet)
- → Kyrgyz: кызмат (kızmat)
- → 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
- → Punjabi: خدمت
- → Pashto: خدمت
- → Turkmen: hyzmat
- → Uyghur: خىزمەت (xizmet)
- → Uzbek: xizmat
→ Swahili: huduma

Noun

خَدْمَة • (ḵadma) f

verbal noun of خَدَمَ (ḵadama) (form I)

Declension

Declension of noun **خَدْمَة** (ḵadma)
singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	خَدْمَة ḵadma	الْخَدْمَة al-ḵadma	خَدْمَة ḵadmat
nominative	خَدْمَةٌ ḵadmatun	الْخَدْمَةُ al-ḵadmatu	خَدْمَةُ ḵadmatu
accusative	خَدْمَةً ḵadmatan	الْخَدْمَةَ al-ḵadmata	خَدْمَةَ ḵadmata
genitive	خَدْمَةٍ ḵadmatin	الْخَدْمَةِ al-ḵadmati	خَدْمَةِ ḵadmati

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “خدمة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “خدمة”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2^nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN