# بخت
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Back-formed and simplified from a nisba-epitheted name, as it has also been called الْبَخْتَرِيّ (al-baḵtariyy) الْإِبِل الْخُرَاسَانِيَّة (al-ʔibil al-ḵurāsāniyya), الْجَمَل الْبُخَارِيّ (al-jamal al-buḵāriyy) etc., various connections made to Bactria, Balkh and Bukhara.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buxt/

#### Noun

بُخْت • (buḵt) m (collective, singulative بُخْتِيّ m or f (buḵtiyy) or بُخْتِيَّة (buḵtiyya), plural بَخَاتِيّ (baḵātiyy))
* a half-breed from a male Bactrian camel and a female dromedary
** 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 37:190:رُؤُوسُهُنَّ كَأَسْنِمَةِ الْبُخْتِ الْمَائِلَةِruʔūsuhunna kaʔasnimati l-buḵti l-māʔilatiTheir heads are inclined like the humps of Bactrian dromedaries.

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Persian بخت (baxt) or its earlier forms.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baxt/

#### Noun

بَخْت • (baḵt) m (plural بُخُوت (buḵūt))
* luck

##### Descendants

* Algerian Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
* Egyptian Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
* Gulf Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
* Omani Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
** → Swahili: bahati
* South Levantine Arabic: بخت (baḵt)

## Khalaj
### Noun

بَخت (baxt, bəxt) (definite accusative بَختی or بَختؽ, plural بَختلَر or بَختلار)
* Arabic spelling of baxt, bəxt (“luck”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بخت (baxt, “luck, fortune”), itself from Middle Persian [script needed] (b(ʾ)ht' /⁠baxt⁠/, “fortune, luck”).

### Noun

بخت • (baht)
* fortune, chance, the arrival of something in an unexpected manner
    Synonyms: طالع (taliʼ), قسمت (kismet)
* luck, fortune, something favorable that happens to someone by chance
    Synonyms: اوغور (uğur), حظ (hazz), دولت (devlet), طالع (taliʼ), قوت (kut)

#### Derived terms

* بخت ایشی (baht işi, “turn of fortune”)
* بخت سیاه (baht-ı siyah, “bad luck”)
* بختسز (bahtsız, “unfortunate”)
* بختلی (bahtlı, “lucky”)
* بختیار (bahtiyar, “whose fortune favors”)
* بدبخت (bedbaht, “bad luck”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: baht
* → Bulgarian: бахт (baht)
* → Serbo-Croatian: bȁht/ ба̏хт, bȃt / ба̑т

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baht1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 439
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “baht”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 83
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بخت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 254
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sors”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1576
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بخت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 718
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “baht”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بخت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 343

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (b(ʾ)ht' /⁠baxt⁠/, “fortune, luck”) which is the past stem of Middle Persian [script needed] (b(ʾ)htn', bhš- /⁠baxtan, baxš⁠/, “to apportion, to distribute, to allocate”) , from Proto-Iranian *bagta- (“assigned, allotted; fate”), a lexicalized past participle ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to distribute”); see there for further information.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [baxt]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bäxt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bäxt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [bäxt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bäxt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [bæxt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bäχt̪]

### Noun

بخت • (baxt)
* fortune, prosperity, felicity, happiness
* luck (good or bad)
* horoscope, nativity, planet, constellation
* nightmare
* kind of locust

#### Derived terms

* بَختاوَر (baxtâvar)
* بَختیار (baxtyâr)
* بَدبَخت (badbaxt)
* خْوَشبَخت (xošbaxt)
* کم‌بخت (kambaxt)

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: بَخْت (baḵt)
** Algerian Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
** Egyptian Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
** Gulf Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
** Omani Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
*** → Swahili: bahati
** South Levantine Arabic: بخت (baḵt)
* → Azerbaijani: bəxt
* → Bashkir: бәхет (bəxet)
* → Hindi: बख़्त (baxt)
* → Kazakh: бақыт (baqyt)
* → Khalaj: baxt
* → Kyrgyz: бакыт (bakıt)
* → Northern Kurdish: baxt
* → Ottoman Turkish: بخت (baht)
** Turkish: baht
** → Bulgarian: бахт (baht)
** → Serbo-Croatian: bȁht/ ба̏хт, bȃt / ба̑т
* → Punjabi: ਬਖ਼ਤ (baxat)
* → Romani: baxt
** → Romanian: baftă
* → Urdu: بخت (baxt)
* → Uyghur: بەخت (bext)

### References

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