لاش

See also: لاس

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic لِ أَيِّ شَيْء (liʔayyi šayʔ, literally “for what thing”). Cognate with North Levantine Arabic ليش (lēš).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /laːʃ/

Adverb

لاش • (lāš)

(interrogative) why?
Synonyms: علاش (ʕlāš), علياش (ʕlayāš), علاه (ʕlāh), لاه (lāh)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

لاشه (laşe)

Etymology

From Persian (lâš).

Noun

لاش • (leş)

carrion, putrid or unclean carcass
Synonym: مردار (murdar)

Descendants

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

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لاش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1621

Persian

Alternative forms

لاشه (lâše)
لش (laš)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [lɑːʃ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑːʃ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lɑːʃ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lɔːʃ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [lɒːʃ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [lɔʃ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	lāš
Dari reading^?	lāš
Iranian reading^?	lâš
Tajik reading^?	loš

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (lšt /⁠lašt⁠/, “corpse”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬯𐬙𐬀 (ⁱrista, “corpse”) and Proto-Germanic *līką.

Noun


Iranian Persian	لاش
Dari	لاش
Tajik	лош

لاش • (lâš)

corpse, carrion

Descendants

→ 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)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun


Iranian Persian	لاش
Dari	لاش
Tajik	лош

لاش • (lâš)

loot, booty, plunder

Related terms

لاشیدن (lâšidan)
لاش کردن (lâš kardan)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (lāš).

Noun

لاش • (lāś) f (Hindi spelling लाश)

corpse