باژ

• باز‎ (bâz), پاژ‎ (pâž), باج‎ (bâj)

From Middle Persian bʾc (bāǰ), from Proto-Iranian *bāǰi- (“tribute, tax”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰáǰati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to distribute, allot”); see there for further information.

Related to باغ (garden), بخت (fortune, luck), and the verb بخشیدن (to endow, forgive); Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek ἔφαγον (éphagon, “I ate”)‌ and Sanskrit भक्ति (bhaktí, “distribution, partition, separation”).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /bɑːʒ/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /bɒːʒ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /bɒːʒ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /bɔːʒ/

باژ • (bâž)

1. tribute, toll, duty, revenue, tax, impost
2. any grievous imposition which distresses the poor or the conquered
3. silence observed by the Pârsis while eating or performing their ablutions
4. a fathom
5. the shoulder
6. the distance between each hand when the arms are horizontally extended in opposite directions
7. the arm, or the upper part of it
8. a finger joint
9. name of a town in the dependencies of Tus, and birthplace of Ferdousi

• باژدار‎ (bâždâr)
• باژبان‎ (bâžbân)

• → Central Kurdish: باج‎ (bāj)
• → Ottoman Turkish: باج‎ (bac)
  • Turkish: bac
  • → Serbo-Croatian: bádža / ба́џа

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “باژ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul