Borrowed from Classical Persian بادشاه (bādšāh), variant of پادشاه (pādišāh). Compare Maithili बादसाह (bādᵊsāh) / 𑒥𑒰𑒠𑒮𑒰𑒯 (bādasāha), Punjabi ਬਾਦਸ਼ਾਹ (bādśāh) / بادْشاہ (bādśāh), Sindhi بادشاهُ / बादशाहु, Gujarati બાદશાહ (bādśāh), Marathi बादशहा (bādaśhā), Bengali বাদশাহ (badśah), Telugu పాదుషా (pāduṣā).
The eighteenth-century philogist Ārzū says that the first consonant changed because پادشاه (pādišāh) sounded inappropriate in Hindi, probably a reference to Urdu پاد (pād) / Hindi पाद (pād, “fart, flatulence”).
बादशाह • (bādśāh) m (Urdu spelling بَادْشَاہ)
Playing cards in Hindi · ताश (tāś) (layout · text) | ||||||
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इक्का (ikkā) | दुक्की (dukkī) | तिक्की (tikkī) | चौका (caukā) | पंजा (pañjā) | छक्का (chakkā) | सत्ता (sattā) |
अट्ठा (aṭṭhā) | नहला (nahlā) | दहला (dahlā) | ग़ुलाम (ġulām) | बेगम (begam) | बादशाह (bādśāh) | जोकर (jokar) |
बादशाह • (bādśāha)
Playing cards in Nepali · तास (tās) (layout · text) | ||||||
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एक्का (ekkā) | दुक्का (dukkā) | तिक्का (tikkā) | चौका (caukā) | पन्जा (panjā), पंजा (pañjā) | छक्का (chakkā) | सत्ता (sattā) |
अट्ठा (aṭṭhā) | नहल (nahal) | दहल (dahal) | गुलाम (gulām) | मिस्सी (missī), रानी (rānī) | बादशाह (bādśāha) | जोकर (jokar) |