بسد

From Persian بسَد‎ (bosad, besad).

بُسَد or بُسَّد or بِسَّد • (busad or bussad or bissad) m

1. (obsolete) coral

   Synonym: مُرْجَان‎ (murjān)

May be the Aramaic בֻּסְרָא‎ (busrā) / בּוּסְרָא‎ (busrā) / ܒܣܪܐ‎ (*busrā, “unripe grape”), elsewhere known as Slavic бисер / biser “pearl”, with typical Persian consonant switch as in شمشار‎ (šemšâr) → شمشاد‎ (šemšâd, “box”). But compare بستام‎ (bestâm, “coral”), also a known form.

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /busad~bisad/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /bʊsad~bɪsad/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /bosæd~besæd/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /busad~bisad/

بسد • (bosad, besad)

1. (archaic) coral

   Synonym: مرجان‎ (marjân)

• بسدین‎ (bosadin, besadin, “coral-coloured, i.e. red”)

• → Arabic: بُسَد‎ (busad)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “بسد”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855), “بسد”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 241b
• Марр, Н. (1910) Тексты и разыскания по армяно-грузинской филологии. Книга XII. Вступительные и заключительные строфы "Витязя в барсовой коже" Шоты из Рустава [Texts and research in Armenian–Georgian philology. Book XII. The opening and closing stanzas of Shota Rustaveli's "The Knight in the Panther's Skin"] (Издания Факультета восточных языков Императорского С.-Петербургского университета; 5) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 18, connects with Old Armenian սաթ (satʿ)