Middle Persian

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Etymology

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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

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b'g (bāğ)

  1. garden

Descendants

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