بخت

Arabic

Etymology 1

Back-formed and simplified from a nisba-epitheted name, as it has also been called الْبَخْتَرِيّ (al-baḵtariyy) الْإِبِل الْخُرَاسَانِيَّة (al-ʔibil al-ḵurāsāniyya), الْجَمَل الْبُخَارِيّ (al-jamal al-buḵāriyy) etc., various connections made to Bactria, Balkh and Bukhara.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buxt/

Noun

بُخْت • (buḵt) m (collective, singulative بُخْتِيّ m or f (buḵtiyy) or بُخْتِيَّة (buḵtiyya), plural بَخَاتِيّ (baḵātiyy))

  1. a half-breed from a male Bactrian camel and a female dromedary
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 37:190:
      رُؤُوسُهُنَّ كَأَسْنِمَةِ الْبُخْتِ الْمَائِلَةِ
      ruʔūsuhunna kaʔasnimati l-buḵti l-māʔilati
      Their heads are inclined like the humps of Bactrian dromedaries.
Declension

Etymology 2

From Persian بخت (baxt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baxt/

Noun

بَخْت • (baḵt) m (plural بُخُوت (buḵūt))

  1. luck
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Descendants
  • Algerian Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
  • Egyptian Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
  • Gulf Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
  • Omani Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
  • South Levantine Arabic: بخت (baḵt)

Khalaj

Noun

بَخت (baxt, bəxt) (definite accusative بَختی or بَختؽ, plural بَختلَر or بَختلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of baxt, bəxt (luck)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بخت (baxt, luck, fortune), itself from Middle Persian [script needed] (b(ʾ)ht' /⁠baxt⁠/, fortune, luck).

Noun

بخت • (baht)

  1. fortune, chance, the arrival of something in an unexpected manner
    Synonyms: طالع (taliʼ), قسمت (kismet)
  2. luck, fortune, something favorable that happens to someone by chance
    Synonyms: اوغور (uğur), حظ (hazz), دولت (devlet), طالع (taliʼ), قوت (kut)

Derived terms

  • بخت ایشی (baht işi, turn of fortune)
  • بخت سیاه (baht-ı siyah, bad luck)
  • بختسز (bahtsız, unfortunate)
  • بختلی (bahtlı, lucky)
  • بختیار (bahtiyar, whose fortune favors)
  • بدبخت (bedbaht, bad luck)

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (b(ʾ)ht' /⁠baxt⁠/, fortune, luck), from Proto-Iranian *bagta- (assigned, allotted; fate), a lexicalized past participle ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (to distribute); see there for further information.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? baxt
Dari reading? baxt
Iranian reading? baxt
Tajik reading? baxt

Noun

بخت • (baxt)

  1. fortune, prosperity, felicity, happiness
  2. luck (good or bad)
  3. horoscope, nativity, planet, constellation
  4. nightmare
  5. kind of locust

Derived terms

Descendants

References

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