باجگاه

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Persian

Etymology

From باج (bâj, tolls) +‎ ـگاه (gâh, place).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? bājgāh
Dari reading? bājgāh
Iranian reading? bâjgâh
Tajik reading? bojgoh

Noun

باجگاه (bâjgâh)

  1. place for collecting tolls
    • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎:
      آن شهر باجگاهست، میان بلاد شام و روم و دیار بکر و مصر و عراق، و از اینهمه بلاد تجار و بازرگانان آنجا روند.
      ān šahr bājgāh ast, miyān-i bilād-i šām u rūm u diyār bakr u misr u irāq, u az īnhama bilād tujjār u bāzargānān ānjā rawand.
      That city is a place for taxing trade, located in between the lands of Syria and Byzantium and Diyarbakır and Egypt and Iraq, and from all these lands merchants and salesman go there.