بخت

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

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Ottoman TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

بخت • (baht)

1. luck
2. fortune

Related termsEdit

• بدبخت‏ (bedbaht)
• بختسیز‏ (bahtsız)

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PersianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

NounEdit

بخت • (baxt)

1. fortune, prosperity, felicity, happiness
2. luck (good or bad)
3. horoscope, nativity, planet, constellation
4. nightmare
5. kind of locust

Derived termsEdit

• خوشبخت‏ (xošbaxt)
• بدبخت‏ (badbaxt)

DescendantsEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

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