Central Kurdish edit

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

Northern Kurdish baş

باش (baş)

  1. good

Khalaj edit

Noun edit

باش (baş, bâş) (definite accusative باشؽ, plural باشلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of baş, bâş (head)

Declension edit

Moroccan Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic بِأَيِّ شَيْء (biʔayyi šayʔ, with what thing).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /baːʃ/, /baʃ/
  • (file)

Conjunction edit

بَاش (bāš or baš)

  1. in order to, in order that, so that: followed by the subjunctive mood
    دخلت للكوزينة باش نشرب الما
    dḵult l-el-kuzīna bāš našrub el-mā
    I entered the kitchen to drink water.

Adverb edit

بَاش (bāš or baš)

  1. (interrogative) with what?
    باش كلتي داك الشي؟
    bāš kalti dāk eš-ši
    With what did you eat that?

Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *baĺč (head).

Noun edit

باش (baş)

  1. head
    باشدن ایاغهbaşdan ayağafrom head to toe (literally, “from head to foot”)
  2. chief, master, leader, head
  3. prow, bow, foreship

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Gagauz: baş
  • Turkish: baş
  • Albanian: bash
  • Armenian: պաշ (paš)
  • Bulgarian: баш (baš)
  • Macedonian: баш (baš)
  • Romanian: baș
  • Serbo-Croatian: bȁšба̏ш

References edit

Persian edit

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? bāš
Dari reading? bāš
Iranian reading? bâš
Tajik reading? boš

Verb edit

باش (bâš)

  1. present stem form of بودن (budan)

Tunisian Arabic edit

Particle edit

باش (bēš)

  1. added to an imperfect (present) verb form to express future tense: will

Uyghur edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *baĺč (head).

Noun edit

باش (bash) (plural باشلار (bashlar))

  1. head
  2. head (of a gang, unit, etc.), leader, chief
  3. the top, peak (of mountain, tree, etc.)
  4. the top end, far end, the front
  5. an end, one end
  6. the beginning, start
  7. the hair
  8. the brain, mind, thinking
  9. life
  10. leadership, authority, command
  11. average

Declension edit


Adjective edit

باش (bash)

  1. the main, chief

Counter edit

باش (bash)

  1. a measure word (for vegetables, etc.)
    بىر باش پىيازbir bash piyazan onion