From Middle Persian (wyšk' /wēšag/). Cognate to Central Kurdish بیشە (bîşe, “forest”) and Northern Kurdish bîşe (“forest”), Related to Latvian mežs (“forest”), Proto-Slavic *meďà (“boundary of a field”) and the borrowed Proto-Finnic *meccä (“forest”), Ottoman Turkish میشه (meşä, “forest”), Azerbaijani meşə (“forest”), ultimately going back to Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”, adjective). For the variation b ⇌ m in the onset compare Middle Persian wnpšk' (wanafšag) some of the descendants of which point to a byform *manafšak. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. .
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Classical reading? | bēša |
Dari reading? | bēša |
Iranian reading? | biše |
Tajik reading? | beša |
Dari | بیشه |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | беша |
بیشِه • (biše)