BĀḠ (BAGH)

“garden.”  In Iranian agriculture, the word bāḡ means, more precisely, an enclosed area bearing permanent cultures— all kinds of cultivated trees and shrubs, as opposed to fields under annual crops.

 

BĀḠ “garden.“

i. Etymology

ii. General

iii. In Persian Literature

iv. In Afghanistan

(For Bāḡ in Persian art, see GARDEN)

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Originally Published: December 15, 1988

Last Updated: August 22, 2011

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