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-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to fear”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? bīma
Dari reading? bīma
Iranian reading? bime
Tajik reading? bima

Noun

بیمه • (bime)

  1. insurance

Descendants

  • → Assamese: বীমা (bima)
  • → Bengali: বীমা (bima)
  • → Gujarati: વીમો (vīmo)
  • → Hindustani:
  • → Marathi: विमा (vimā)
    • → Kannada: ವಿಮೆ (vime)
  • → Nepali: बीमा (bīmā)
  • → Sindhi: वीमो / وِيمو (vīmo)
  • → Pashto: بيمه (bimá)
  • → Punjabi: ਬੀਮਾ (bīmā)
  • → Telugu: బీమా (bīmā)

References

  1. Najaf Haider (2019) “The Moneychangers (Şarrāfs) in Mughal India”, in Studies in People's History‎, volume 6, number 2, pages 146—161
  2. Willem Floor (1989) “Bīma”, in Encyclopædia Iranica‎
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