بها

From Middle Persian [script needed] (whʾk /wahāg/); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to sell, trade”). Akin to Armenian գին (gin, “price”).

Persian

Etymology 1

Noun

بها • (bahâ)

1. price, value

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: baha, bahalı (“expensive”)
• Bashkir: баһа (baha)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بها‎ (baha, “price, expensive”)
  • Turkish: paha, pahalı (“expensive”)
• → Kazakh: баға, бағалы (bağa, bağaly, “expensive”)
• → Kyrgyz: баа, баалуу (baa, baaluu, “expensive”)

Etymology 2

Noun

بها • (behâ)

1. goodness
2. beauty
3. ornament

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “ب‍ﮩ‍ا”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul