# بید
## Persian
### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wyt /⁠wēd⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *waytaháh, from Proto-Iranian *waytasás, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [beːð]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [beːd̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [beːd̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [beːd̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [beːd̪̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [biːd̪̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bed̪]

#### Noun

بید • (bid)
* willow (tree)
    درختِ بید ― deraxt-e bid ― willow tree

##### Derived terms

* بید مجنون (bid-e majnun, “weeping willow”)
* بیدمشک (bidmešk, “pussy willow”)
* زرربید (zardbid, “brook willow”)

##### Descendants

* → Northern Kurdish: bîd

### Etymology 2

Unknown, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”), in reference to the harmful activities of these insects. Compare the variants بیو (biv), بیب (bib).

#### Pronunciation

* (Iran, formal) IPA: [biːd̪̥]

#### Noun

بید • (bid)
* moth; especially, the clothes moth or other types of moths that cause damage to crops or fabric, or the larva thereof
    Synonyms: شب‌پره (šab-pare), شاپرک (šâparak)

##### Derived terms

* بید لباس (bid-e lebâs, “clothes moth”)
* بید کاغذ (bid-e kâğaz, “silverfish”)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Urdu بید (bed) / Hindi बेद (bed), from Sanskrit वेद (veda).

#### Pronunciation

* (Indo-Persian) IPA: /beːd/

#### Proper noun

بید • (bēd) (Classical transliteration)
* (Indo-Persian, obsolete) Veda (Hindu scripture)
    Synonym: (modern Iranian) ودا (vedâ)
** c. 1655, دبستان مذاهب [Dabistān-i Mazāhib]:چهار بید که به زعم ایشان نامهٔ سماوی است به لغت سنسکریت است که در هیچ شهری بدان زبان تکلم نکنند سوای کتب این طایفه یافته نشود.čahâr bêd ki ba za'm-i êšân nâma-yi samâwî ast ba luğat-i sanskrît ast ki dar hêč šahrî bad-ân zabân takallum na-kunand siwây kutub-i în tâyifa yâfta na-šawad.The four Vedas, which they claim to be celestial texts, are in the Sanskrit language, which is a language not spoken in any city and is not to be found except in the books of this sect.(Classical Persian romanization)

##### Alternative forms

* وید (vid)

### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بید”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بید”, 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, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 294b–295a

## Urdu
### Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit वैद्य (vaidya).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /bɛːd̪/
* Rhymes: -ɛːd̪
* Hyphenation: بَید

### Noun

بَید • (baid) m (Hindi spelling बैद)
* physician, doctor
    Synonyms: حَکِیم (hakīm), طَبِیب (tabīb), ڈاکْٹَر (ḍākṭar)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “بید”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “بید”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بيد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “بيد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* John Shakespear (1834) “بید”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “بید”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.