b'g

Middle Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰāgá- (“portion, share, allotment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute, allot”); see there for more. The sense development is ‘portion, share, allotment’ → ‘landed allotment’ → ‘garden’. The same semantic development occurred in the Armenian cognate բակ (bak).

Noun

b'g • (bāğ)

garden

Descendants

Persian: باغ‎ (bâğ)
Tajik: боғ (boġ)
Yagnobi: боғ (boğ)

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