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Middle Persian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Persian *bāgah (“garden, orchard”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰāgás (“division; allotment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute, allot”); see there for more. The sense development is ‘portion, share, allotment’ → ‘landed allotment’ → ‘garden’. The same semantic development occurred in the Armenian cognate բակ (bak).
Noun
bʾg • (bāğ)
- garden, orchard
Descendants
- Persian: باغ (bâğ) (see there for further descendants)
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “bāγ”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2013) “The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, in Journal of Language Relationship, number 10, page 99
- Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 53
- Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 51