بیمه

See also: تيمه

Persian

Etymology

Probably first used in the aristocratic Persian of the Mughal empire, from at least the 1650s.[1] The word spread from South Asia to the rest of the Persianate world. The first attestation by an author of Iranian origin is apparently from Tohfat al-'âlam (1801), itself a memoir of the author's journeys in India.[2] The word may be from Persian بیم (bim, fear). Alternately, given the Indian origin, it may be from an Indo-Aryan language; compare Sanskrit भीम (bhīma, fearful, frightening). Both terms are ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (to fear).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? bīma
Dari reading? bīma
Iranian reading? bime
Tajik reading? bima

Noun

بیمه • (bime)

  1. insurance

Descendants

  • Assamese: বীমা (bima)
  • Bengali: বীমা (bima)
  • Gujarati: વીમો (vīmo)
  • Hindustani:
  • Marathi: विमा (vimā)
    • Kannada: ವಿಮೆ (vime)
  • Nepali: बीमा (bīmā)
  • Sindhi: वीमो / وِيمو (vīmo)
  • Pashto: بيمه (bimá)
  • Punjabi: ਬੀਮਾ (bīmā)
  • Telugu: బీమా (bīmā)

References

  1. Najaf Haider (2019) “The Moneychangers (Şarrāfs) in Mughal India”, in Studies in People's History, volume 6, number 2, pages 146—161
  2. Willem Floor (1989) “Bīma”, in Encyclopædia Iranica
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