Ottoman Turkish

Noun

بخت • ‎(baht)

1. luck
2. fortune

Related terms

• بدبخت (bedbaht)
• بختسیز (bahtsız)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian b(ʾ)ht' ‎(baxt, “fortune, luck”), from Proto-Iranian *bagta- ‎(“assigned, allotted; fate”), a lexicalized past participle ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- ‎(“to distribute”); see there for more.

Noun

بخت • ‎(baxt)

1. fortune, prosperity, felicity, happiness
2. luck (good or bad)
3. horoscope, nativity, planet, constellation
4. nightmare
5. kind of locust

Derived terms

• خوشبخت ‎(xošbaxt)
• بدبخت ‎(badbaxt)

Descendants

• Bashkir: бәхет ‎(bäxet)
• Kurdish: baxt
• Ottoman Turkish
  • Turkish: baht
  • → Serbo-Croatian: bȁht/ба̏хт, bȃt/ба̑т
• Romani: baxt

References

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