Bimaristan
A bimaristan (Persian: بيمارستان, romanized: bīmārestān; Arabic: بِيْمَارِسْتَان, romanized: bīmāristān), or simply maristan, known in Arabic as dar al-shifa ("house of healing"; darüşşifa in Turkish), is a hospital in the historic Islamic world. == Etymology == Bimarestān is a New Persian word inherited from the Middle Persian wēmārestān (𐭥𐭩𐭬𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭲𐭠𐭭), from wēmār "sick, ill person" plus the suffix -stan "place, location." In English literature, the term designates institutions of medicine in the medieval Islamic world.