باژ

See also: باز, تاز, تار, بار, پار, ثأر, and ثار

Persian

Alternative forms

• باز (bâz), پاژ (pâž), باج (bâj)

Etymology

From Middle Persian bʾc (bāǰ), from Proto-Iranian *bāǰi- (“tribute, tax”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰáǰati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to distribute, allot”); see there for further information.

Related to Persian باغ (bâğ, “garden”), بخت (baxt, “fortune, luck”), and the verb بخشیدن (baxšidan, “to endow, forgive”); Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek ἔφαγον (éphagon, “I ate”)‌ and Sanskrit भक्ति (bhaktí, “distribution, partition, separation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bɑːʒ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑːʒ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑːʒ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑːʒ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔːʒ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bɒːʒ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɔʒ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bāž
Dari reading?	bāž
Iranian reading?	bâž
Tajik reading?	bož

Noun

باژ • (bâž)

1. tribute, toll, duty, revenue, tax, impost
2. any grievous imposition which distresses the poor or the conquered
3. silence observed by the Pârsis while eating or performing their ablutions
4. a fathom
5. the shoulder
6. the distance between each hand when the arms are horizontally extended in opposite directions
7. the arm, or the upper part of it
8. a finger joint
9. name of a town in the dependencies of Tus, and birthplace of Ferdousi

Derived terms

• باژدار (bâždâr)
• باژبان (bâžbân)

Descendants

• → Central Kurdish: باج (bāj)
• → Ottoman Turkish: باج (bac)
  • Turkish: bac
  • → Serbo-Croatian: bádža / ба́џа

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “باژ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul