bakšiš

See also: baksis

Czech

Alternative forms

• bachšiš

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle Persian [script needed] (ḤLKWN-šn' /⁠baxšišn⁠⁠/)

Classical Persian بَخْشِش (baxšiš)bor.

Ottoman Turkish بخشش (bahşiş)bor.

Czech bakšiš

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بخشش (bahşiş), borrowed from Classical Persian بَخْشِش (baxšiš), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ḤLKWN-šn' /⁠baxšišn⁠⁠/, “bestowal, distribution”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbakʃɪʃ]

Noun

bakšiš m inan

1. baksheesh (a bribe or tip)

Declension

Declension of bakšiš (soft masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	bakšiš	bakšiše
genitive	bakšiše	bakšišů
dative	bakšiši	bakšišům
accusative	bakšiš	bakšiše
vocative	bakšiši	bakšiše
locative	bakšiši	bakšiších
instrumental	bakšišem	bakšiši

Further reading

• “bakšiš”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bakšiš”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “bakšiš”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2026, slovnikcestiny.cz
• “bakšiš”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بخشش (bahşiş, “tip”), from Persian بخشش (bakhšîš, “gift”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎkʃiʃ/
• Hyphenation: bak‧šiš

Noun

bàkšiš m inan (Cyrillic spelling ба̀кшиш)

1. tip

Declension

Declension of bakšiš

	singular
nominative	bakšiš
genitive	bakšiša
dative	bakšišu
accusative	bakšiš
vocative	bakšiše
locative	bakšišu
instrumental	bakšišom

Further reading

• “bakšiš”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026