بیمه
See also: تيمه
Persian
Etymology
Probably first used in the aristocratic Persian of the Mughal empire, from at least the 1650s.[1] The word spread from South Asia to the rest of the Persianate world. The first attestation by an author of Iranian origin is apparently from Tohfat al-'âlam (1801), itself a memoir of the author's journeys in India.[2] The word may be from Persian بیم (bim, “fear”). Alternately, given the Indian origin, it may be from an Indo-Aryan language; compare Sanskrit भीम (bhīma, “fearful, frightening”). Both terms are ultimately from the Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰayH-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian): IPA(key): /biːma/
- (Dari): IPA(key): /biːma/
- (Iranian Persian): IPA(key): /biːme/
- (Tajik): IPA(key): /bima/
Noun
بیمه • (bime)
- insurance
Descendants
- → Assamese: বীমা (bima)
- → Bengali: বীমা (bīma)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: बीमा (bīmā)
- Urdu: بِیمَہ (bīmā)
- → Gujarati: વીમો (vīmo)
- → Swahili: bima
- → Marathi: विमा (vimā)
- → Kannada: ವಿಮೆ (vime)
- → Nepali: बीमा (bīmā)
- → Sindhi: वीमो / وِيمو (vīmo)
- → Pashto: بيمه (bimá)
- → Punjabi: ਬੀਮਾ (bīmā)
- → Telugu: బీమా (bīmā)
References
- Najaf Haider (2019), “The Moneychangers (Şarrāfs) in Mughal India”, in Studies in People's History, volume 6, issue 2, pages 146—161
- Willem Floor (1989), “Bīma”, in Encyclopædia Iranica