بید

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wyt /⁠wēd⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *waytaháh, from Proto-Iranian *waytasás, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis.

بید • (bid)

1. willow (tree)

   درختِ بید ― deraxt-e bid ― willow tree

• → Northern Kurdish: bîd

Unknown, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”), in reference to the harmful activities of these insects. Compare the variants بیو (biv), بیب (bib).

بید • (bid)

1. moth; especially, the clothes moth or other types of moths that cause damage to crops or fabric, or the larva thereof

   Synonyms: شب‌پره (šab-pare), شاپرک (šâparak)

Borrowed from Urdu بید (bed) / Hindi बेद (bed), from Sanskrit वेद (veda).

• (India) IPA^(key): /beːd/

بید • (bēd) (Classical transliteration)

1. (India, obsolete) Veda (Hindu scripture)

   Synonym: (modern Iranian) ودا (vedâ)

   • c. 1655, دبستان مذاهب [Dabistān-i Mazāhib]:

     چهار بید که به زعم ایشان نامهٔ سماوی است به لغت سنسکریت است که در هیچ شهری بدان زبان تکلم نکنند سوای کتب این طایفه یافته نشود.

     čahâr bêd ki ba za'm-i êšân nâma-yi samâwî ast ba luğat-i sanskrît ast ki dar hêč šahrî bad-ân zabân takallum na-kunand siwây kutub-i în tâyifa yâfta na-šawad.

     The four Vedas, which they claim to be celestial texts, are in the Sanskrit language, which is a language not spoken in any city and is not to be found except in the books of this sect.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

• وید (vid)

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