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Persian
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *waixa (“base, root”).
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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bēx
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| Dari reading?
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bēx
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| Iranian reading?
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bix
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| Tajik reading?
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bex
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Noun
بیخ • (bix)
- root (of plants)
- Synonyms: ریشه (riše), بن (bon)
- base, foundation
- Synonym: بنیاد (bonyâd)
c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 478”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:نوش کن جام شراب یک منی
تا بدان بیخ غم از دل برکنی- nōš kun jām-i šarāb-i yak manī
tā bad-ān bēx ğam az dil barkanī - Drink up the one-maund goblet of wine,
To drag out grief from your heart thereby .
Descendants
Further reading
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بیخ (bēx, “root; base”).
Pronunciation
Noun
بیخ • (bīx or bex) ?
- root; source, origin
- foundation, basis
- Synonyms: نہاد (nihād), بنیاد (bunyād)
- lineage
- Synonym: نژاد (naźād)
Derived terms
References
- “بیخ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بیخ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “بیخ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “بیخ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Ushojo
Noun
بیخ (bīx)
- base on, root, origin