بخت

See also: تخت‎, بحت‎, تجب‎, تحب‎, بحث‎, تحت‎, and ب ح ث‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ‎ (baxt), from Middle Persian b(ʾ)ht' (baxt, “fortune, luck”).

Noun

بخت • (baht)

luck
fortune

Related terms

بدبخت‎ (bedbaht)
بختسیز‎ (bahtsız)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian b(ʾ)ht' (baxt, “fortune, luck”), from Proto-Iranian *bagta- (“assigned, allotted; fate”), a lexicalized past participle ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to distribute”); see there for more.

Noun

بخت • (baxt)

fortune, prosperity, felicity, happiness
luck (good or bad)
horoscope, nativity, planet, constellation
nightmare
kind of locust

Derived terms

خوشبخت‎ (xošbaxt)
بدبخت‎ (badbaxt)

Descendants

Bashkir: бәхет (bäxet)
Kurdish: baxt
Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish: baht
- → Serbo-Croatian: bȁht/ба̏хт, bȃt/ба̑т
Romani: baxt

References

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

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