لاش

See also: لاس

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic لِأَيِّ شَيْء (liʔayyi šayʔ, literally “for what thing”). Cognate with North Levantine Arabic ليش (lēš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laːʃ/

Adverb

لاش • (lāš)

1. (interrogative) why?

   Synonyms: علاش (ʕlāš), علياش (ʕlayāš), علاه (ʕlāh), لاه (lāh)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• لاشه (lâşe) — chiefly poetic

Etymology

From Persian لاش (lâš).

Noun

لاش • (leş)

1. carrion, putrid or unclean carcass

   Synonym: مردار (murdar)

Descendants

• Turkish: leş
• → Albanian: lesh
• → Armenian: լեշ (leš)
• → Aromanian: leșã
• → Bulgarian: леш (leš)
• → Byzantine Greek: λέσι (lési)
  • Greek: λέσι (lési)
• → Crimean Tatar: leş
• → Georgian: ლეში (leši)
  • → Bats: ლეშ (leš)
• → Romanian: leș
• → Serbo-Croatian: leš / леш

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لاش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1621

Persian

Alternative forms

• لاشه (lâše) (chiefly poetic)
• لش (laš)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈlaːʃ/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑːʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑːʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lɑːʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lɔːʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [lɒːʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [lɔʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	lāš
Dari reading?	lāš
Iranian reading?	lâš
Tajik reading?	loš

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (lšt /⁠lašt⁠/, “corpse”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬯𐬙𐬀 (ⁱrista, “corpse”) and Proto-Germanic *līką.

Noun

Dari	لاش
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лош

لاش • (lâš)

1. corpse, carrion

Descendants

• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܲܫܵܐ (laššā)
• → Azerbaijani: leş, ləş
• → Bengali: লাশ (laś)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: लाश (lāś), लाशा (lāśā) — chiefly poetic

  Urdu: لاش (lāś), لاشہ (lāśa) — chiefly poetic

• → Middle Armenian: լաշ (laš)
  • Armenian: լաշ (laš)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لاش (leş), لاشه (lâşe) — chiefly poetic
  • Turkish: leş
  • → Albanian: lesh
  • → Armenian: լեշ (leš)
  • → Aromanian: leșã
  • → Bulgarian: леш (leš)
  • → Byzantine Greek: λέσι (lési)
    • Greek: λέσι (lési)
  • → Crimean Tatar: leş
  • → Georgian: ლეში (leši)
    • → Bats: ლეშ (leš)
  • → Romanian: leș
  • → Serbo-Croatian: leš / леш
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਲਾਸ਼ (lāś)

  Shahmukhi script: لاش (lāś)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

Dari	لاش
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лош

لاش • (lâš)

1. loot, booty, plunder

Related terms

• لاشیدن (lâšidan)
• لاش کردن (lâš kardan)

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَاش (lāš).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /läːʃᵊ/

Noun

لاش • (lāś) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਾਸ਼)

1. corpse (the body of a dead person)

Declension

Declension of لاش

	singular	plural
direct	لاش (lāś)	لاشاں (lāśāṉ)
oblique	لاش (lāś)	لاشاں (lāśāṉ)
vocative	لاشے (lāśe)	لاشو (lāśo)
ablative	لاشوں (lāśoṉ)	—
locative	لاشی (lāśī)	لاشِیں (lāśīṉ)
instrumental	لاشے (lāśe)	لاشِیں (lāśīṉ)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “لاش”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• “ਲਾਸ਼”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Urdu

Alternative forms

• لاشہ (lāśa) — chiefly poetic

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَاش (lāš).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lɑːʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːʃ

Noun

لَاش • (lāś) f (Hindi spelling लाश)

1. corpse

Declension

Declension of لاش

	singular	plural
direct	لَاش (lāś)	لَاشیں (lāśẽ)
oblique	لَاش (lāś)	لَاشوں (lāśõ)
vocative	لَاش (lāś)	لَاشو (lāśo)