A word used across South Asia — particularly in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh — for a medical clinic or dispensary. Derived from Persian, it combines dava (medicine) with khana (house), literally meaning 'medicine house.' A davakhana can range from a small village dispensary to a modest urban clinic, and the word carries a practical, no-frills feel. It's deeply embedded in everyday speech across the subcontinent, used casually the way English speakers might say 'the clinic' or 'the doctor's.'
He rushed his daughter to the davakhana after she cut her hand on a broken tile in the courtyard.
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(India) A medical clinic.
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