بیشه
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Persian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Persian [script needed] (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. .
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [beː.ˈʃa]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [biː.ʃé]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [be.ʃǽ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | bēša |
| Dari reading? | bēša |
| Iranian reading? | biše |
| Tajik reading? | beša |
Noun[edit]
| Dari | بیشه |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | беша |
بیشِه • (biše)
Synonyms[edit]
- جَنْگَل (jangal)
Related terms[edit]
- بیشِهزار (biše-zâr)
References[edit]
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بیشه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wyšk'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 90