لاش

From Arabic لِأَيِّ شَيْء‎ (liʔayyi šayʔ, literally “for what thing”). Cognate with North Levantine Arabic ليش‎ (lēš).

• IPA^(key): /laːʃ/

لاش • (lāš)

1. (interrogative) why?

   Synonyms: علاش‎ (ʕlāš), علياش‎ (ʕlayāš), علاه‎ (ʕlāh), لاه‎ (lāh)

• لاشه‎ (laşe)

From Persian لاش‎ (lâš).

لاش • (leş)

1. carrion, putrid or unclean carcass

• Turkish: leş
• → Albanian: lesh
• → Armenian: լեշ (leš)
• → Aromanian: leșã
• → Bulgarian: леш (leš)
• → Byzantine Greek: λέσι (lési)
  • Greek: λέσι (lési)
• → Crimean Tatar: leş
• → Georgian: ლეში (leši)
• → Romanian: leș
• → Serbo-Croatian: leš / леш

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لاش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1621

• لاشه‎ (lâše)
• لش‎ (laš)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (lšt /lašt/, “corpse”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬯𐬙𐬀‎ (ⁱrista, “corpse”) and Proto-Germanic *līką.

لاش • (lâš)

1. corpse, carrion

• → Azerbaijani: leş, ləş
• → Bengali: লাশ (laś)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: लाश (lāś)
  • Urdu: لاش‎ (lāš), لاشہ‎ (lāša)
• → Middle Armenian: լաշ (laš)
  • Armenian: լաշ (laš)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لاش‎ (leş), لاشه‎ (laşe)
  • Turkish: leş
  • → Albanian: lesh
  • → Armenian: լեշ (leš)
  • → Aromanian: leșã
  • → Bulgarian: леш (leš)
  • → Byzantine Greek: λέσι (lési)
    • Greek: λέσι (lési)
  • → Crimean Tatar: leş
  • → Georgian: ლეში (leši)
  • → Romanian: leș
  • → Serbo-Croatian: leš / леш
• → Punjabi: ਲਾਸ਼ (lāś)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

لاش • (lâš)

1. loot, booty, plunder

• لاشیدن‎ (lâšidan)
• لاش کردن‎ (lâš kardan)

From Persian لاش‎ (lâš).

لاش • (lāš) f (Hindi spelling लाश)

1. corpse

• لاشہ‎ (lāša)