باژ

• باز‎ (bâz)
• پاژ‎ (pâž)
• باج‎ (bâj)

From Middle Persian bʾc (bāǰ), from Proto-Iranian *bāǰi- (“tribute, tax”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to distribute, allot”); see there for more.

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

• باژدار‎ (bâždâr)
• باژبان‎ (bâžbân)

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

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