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• BĀḠ i. Etymology

  W. Eilers

  Bāḡ, the Middle and New Persian word for “garden,” as also the Sogdian βāγ, strictly meant “piece” or “patch of land.”

• BĀḠ ii. General

  M. Bazin

  The most conspicuous and best-known form is the irrigated gardens of old sedentary settlements (piedmont oases and mountain villages) in interior Iran and Afghanistan.

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• BĀḠ iii. In Persian Literature

  W. L. Hanaway

  Bāḡ appears both as an object of description and as the prime source of nature imagery in Persian literature. 

• BĀḠ iv. In Afghanistan

  N. H. Dupree

  The people inhabiting this land have cherished all forms of gardens, which have become an integral part of Afghan culture.

• BAG NASK

  P. O. Skjærvø

  one of the Avestan nasks of the gāhānīg group, that is, texts connected with the Gāθās; it is now lost almost in its entirety. This nask is listed in the survey of the Avesta in Dēnkard 8.1.9.

• BĀḠ-E BĀLĀ

  cross-reference

  See BĀḠ iv.

• BĀḠ-E ERAM

  K. Afsar

  a famous and beautiful garden at Shiraz. Its site was formerly on the northwestern fringe of the city but is now well inside the greatly expanded urban area.

• BĀḠ-E FĪN

  ʿA.-A. Saʿīdī Sīrjānī

  garden southwest of the city of Kāšān, where subterranean waters from the Dandāna and Haft Kotal mountains emerge to form the Fīn springs.

• BĀḠ-E GOLESTĀN

  cross-reference

  See GOLESTĀN PALACE.

• BĀḠ-E JAHĀNNĀMA

  cross-reference

  See SHIRAZ.