بیش

بیش (beş)

1. five (5)

• Ili Turki: besh
• Uyghur: بەش‎ (besh)
• Uzbek: besh

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wyš /wēš/, “more”).

بیش • (biš)

1. more

   ‏این کشور بیش از پیش ثروتمند است.‎‎

   in kešvar biš az piš servatmand ast.

   This country is wealthier than before.

   Synonym: بیشتر‎ (bištar)

• → Bengali: বেশ (beś)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (byš /bīš/, “aconite”), from Sanskrit विषा (viṣā, “Aconitum ferox”), from विष (viṣa, “poison”), whence English bikh.

بیش • (biš)

1. aconite

• → Arabic: بِيش‎ (bīš)
• → Middle Armenian: բէշ (bēš), բիշ (biš), պէշ (pēš), պիշ (piš)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բէշ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 446–447
• Laufer, Berthold (1919) Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products (Fieldiana, Anthropology; 15), volume 3, Chicago: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, page 582
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 18
• Palatecʿi, Gēorg Dpir (1829), “պիյշ”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʿ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 442b
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “بیش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 221

From Sanskrit वंशी (vaṃśī, “flute”). Compare Hindi बाँसुरी (bā̃surī).

بیش (bīš)

1. flute

Borrowed from Persian بیش‎ (biš).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /beːʃ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /beːʃ/

بیش • (beš) (Hindi spelling बेश)

1. more, greater
2. excess, too much, a lot

• “بیش”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بیش”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

بیش (beš)

1. beam
2. beam made of wood