بیخ

Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *waixa (“base, root”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [beːx]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beːx]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beːx]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [beːx]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [beːx]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [biːx]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [beχ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bēx
Dari reading?	bēx
Iranian reading?	bix
Tajik reading?	bex

Noun

بیخ • (bix)

1. root (of plants)

   Synonyms: ریشه (riše), بن (bon)

2. base, foundation

   Synonym: بنیاد (bonyâd)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 478”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     نوش کن جام شراب یک منی
     تا بدان بیخ غم از دل برکنی

     nōš kun jām-i šarāb-i yak manī
     tā bad-ān bēx ğam az dil barkanī

     Drink up the one-maund goblet of wine,
     To drag out grief from your heart thereby [lit. on this basis].

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants

• → Urdu: بیخ (bīx)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بیخ”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بیخ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بیخ (bēx, “root; base”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /biːx/, /beːx/

Noun

بیخ • (bīx or bex) ?

1. root; source, origin
2. foundation, basis

   Synonyms: نہاد (nihād), بنیاد (bunyād)

3. lineage

   Synonym: نژاد (naźād)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• بِیْخ و بُن (bīx-o-bun, “root and origin”)
• بِیخ کَن (bīx-kan, “eradicator”, literally “root-digger”)
• بیخ کنی (bīx-kanī, “uprooting”)
• بِیخِ اَرَنْڈ (bīx-e-aranḍ, “root of a castor plant”)

References

• “بیخ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بیخ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بیخ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “بیخ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

Ushojo

Noun

بیخ (bīx)

1. base on, root, origin