بیشه

See also: پیشہ, پیسہ, پیشه, تیشه, and پیسه

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wyšk' /⁠wēšag⁠/). Cognate to Central Kurdish بیشە (bîşe, “forest”) and Northern Kurdish bîşe (“forest”), Related to Latvian mežs (“forest”), Proto-Slavic *meďà (“boundary of a field”) and the borrowed Proto-Finnic *meccä (“forest”), Ottoman Turkish میشه (meşä, “forest”), Azerbaijani meşə (“forest”), ultimately going back to Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”, adjective). For the variation b ⇌ m in the onset compare Middle Persian wnpšk' (wanafšag) some of the descendants of which point to a byform *manafšak. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. .

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [beː.ˈʃa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beː.ʃǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beː.ʃǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [beː.ʃǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [beː.ʃǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [biː.ʃé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [be.ʃǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bēša
Dari reading?	bēša
Iranian reading?	biše
Tajik reading?	beša

Noun

Dari	بیشه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	беша

بیشِه • (biše)

1. forest, wood, jungle

   Synonym: جَنْگَل (jangal)

Related terms

• بیشِه‌زار (biše-zâr)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بیشه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wyšk'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 90