बादशाह

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادشاه (bādšāh), variant of پادشاه (pādišāh). Compare Maithili बादसाह (bādᵊsāh) / 𑒥𑒰𑒠𑒮𑒰𑒯 (bādasāha), Punjabi ਬਾਦਸ਼ਾਹ (bādśāh) / بادْشاہ (bādśāh), Sindhi بادشاهُ / बादशाहु, Gujarati બાદશાહ (bādśāh), Marathi बादशहा (bādaśhā), Bengali বাদশাহ (badśah), Telugu పాదుషా (pāduṣā).

The 18th-century philologist Ārzū says that the first consonant changed because پادشاه (pādišāh) sounded inappropriate in Hindi, probably a reference to Urdu پاد (pād) / Hindi पाद (pād, “fart, flatulence”). In other words Persian 'P' sound changed into 'B' in Arabic as there is no 'P' in Arabic.

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bɑːd̪.ʃɑːɦ/, [bäːd̪.ʃäːʱ]

बादशाह • (bādśāh) m (Urdu spelling بَادْشَاہ)

1. Badshah, Padishah; Muslim king

   Synonyms: शहंशाह (śahañśāh), सम्राज (samrāj), सुल्तान (sultān), राजा (rājā), महाराजा (mahārājā), सम्राट (samrāṭ)

2. (chess, card games) king

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बादशाह”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Hindi बादशाह (bādśāh), from Classical Persian بَادْشَاه (bādšāh).

• IPA^(key): [bäd̪sä̤ː], [bäsːä]
• Phonetic Devanagari: बाद्साः

बादशाह • (bādśāha)

1. (card games) king

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1931) “बाद्साह”, in A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, page 433