باجگاه

Persian

Etymology

باج (bâj, “tolls”) +‎ ـگاه (gâh, “place”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bɑːd͡ʒ.ˈɡɑːh]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑːd͡ʒ.ɡɑ́ːʱ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑːd͡ʒ.ɡɑ́ːʱ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑːd͡ʒ.ɡɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔːd͡ʒ.ɡɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bɒːd͡ʒ.ɡɒ́ːʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɔd͡ʒ.ɡɔ́ʱ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bājgāh
Dari reading?	bājgāh
Iranian reading?	bâjgâh
Tajik reading?	bojgoh

Noun

باجگاه • (bâjgâh)

1. place for collecting tolls
   • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎^[1]:

     آن شهر باجگاهست، میان بلاد شام و روم و دیار بکر و مصر و عراق، و از اینهمه بلاد تجار و بازرگانان آنجا روند.

     ān šahr bājgāh ast, miyān-i bilād-i šām u rūm u diyār bakr u misr u irāq, u az īnhama bilād tujjār u bāzargānān ānjā rawand.

     That city [of Aleppo] is a place for taxing trade, located in between the lands of Syria and Byzantium and Diyarbakır and Egypt and Iraq, and from all these lands merchants and salesman go there.