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”), ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to distribute, allot”); see there for more.

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

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 whilst eating or performing their ablutions
4. a fathom
5. the shoulder
6. the distance between each hand when the arms are horizontally extended in an opposite directio
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

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

References

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