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-Iranian *bʰayH-.

Pronunciation

    • (Dari): IPA(key): /biːma/

    Noun

    بیمه • (bime)

    1. insurance

    Descendants

    • → Assamese: বীমা (bima)
    • → Bengali: বীমা (bima)
    • → 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, issue 2, pages 146—161
    2. Willem Floor (1989), “Bīma”, in Encyclopædia Iranica‎
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