באש

באש • (transliteration needed)

1. to do evil

• Classical Syriac: ܒܐܫ

Cognate with Aramaic בְּאֵשׁ (“to be bad, displeasing”).

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /baːˈʔaʃ/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /baˈ(ʔ)aʃ/

בָּאַשׁ • (ba'ásh) (pa'al construction, future יִבְאַשׁ)

1. (Biblical Hebrew) to stink, have a foul smell
   • Tanach, Exodus 16:20, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וְלֹא־שָׁמְעוּ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה וַיּוֹתִרוּ אֲנָשִׁים מִמֶּנּוּ עַד־בֹּקֶר וַיָּרֻם תּוֹלָעִים וַיִּבְאַשׁ וַיִּקְצֹף עֲלֵהֶם מֹשֶׁה׃

     But they paid no attention to Moses; some of them left of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and stank. And Moses was angry with them.

   • Tanach, Exodus 7:18, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וְהַדָּגָה אֲשֶׁר־בַּיְאֹר תָּמוּת וּבָאַשׁ הַיְאֹר וְנִלְאוּ מִצְרַיִם לִשְׁתּוֹת מַיִם מִן־הַיְאֹר׃

     ...and the fish in the Nile will die. The Nile will stink so that the Egyptians will find it impossible to drink the water of the Nile.

• באוש / בְּאֹשׁ (b'osh, “stench”)
• בָּאֶשֶׁת (ba'éshet, “bad breath, halitosis”)
• נִבְאַשׁ (niv'ásh, “to become stinking; to become hateful”)
• הִבְאִישׁ (hiv'ísh, “to stink; to make stinking; to ostracize”)

• (modern) הִסְרִיחַ (hisríakh)

• H887 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “באשׁ”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 62b
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 136a

• בש (ḅaš)

From Northern Kurdish baş, from Classical Persian باش (bâš, “imperative of be”).

באש (bāš)

1. good