باش

See also: یاس, يأس, ياس, تاش, یاش, ياش, باس, تاس, ئاش, ئاس, and پاش

Central Kurdish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːʃ/

Adjective

Northern Kurdish baş

باش (baş)

  1. good

Khalaj

Noun

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

  1. Arabic spelling of baş, bâş (head)

Declension

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

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

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *baĺč (head).

Noun

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

Descendants

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

References

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 238
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1 of 656–662
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 324
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “باش”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 163–164

Persian

Pronunciation

 

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

Verb

باش • (bâš)

  1. present stem form of بودن (budan)

Tunisian Arabic

Particle

باش (bēš)

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

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *baĺč (head).

Noun

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

Adjective

باش • (bash)

  1. the main, chief

Counter

باش • (bash)

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