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

   Synonym: مردار (murdar)

• 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)
  • → Bats: ლეშ (leš)
• → Romanian: leș
• → Serbo-Croatian: leš / леш

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لاش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], 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

• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܲܫܵܐ (laššā)
• → 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)
    • → Bats: ლეშ (leš)
  • → 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)

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَاش (lāš).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /läːʃᵊ/

لاش • (lāś) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਲਾਸ਼)

1. corpse (the body of a dead person)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “لاش”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਲਾਸ਼”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَاش (lāš).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lɑːʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːʃ

لَاش • (lāś) f (Hindi spelling लाश)

1. corpse

• لاشہ (lāśa)