Saturday, July 31, 2010

brother

bakh : brother

The Tarijan word for brother is bakh.

In other languages:
In Ossetian (a language of the Caucasus region) bakh means horse. In Azerbaijani Ay bari bakh (English: look at me) is an old dance performed only by women.

International locations:
Bakh is the name of a cities in Iraq, Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

How I came up with this word:
Bakh is a mixture of the transliterated word for brother in Russian which is brat (брат), and the transliterated word for brother in Mongolian which is akh (ах).