شاخ

• IPA^(key): /ʃaː.xa/

شَاخَ • (šāḵa) I (non-past يَشِيخُ (yašīḵu), verbal noun شَيَخ (šayaḵ) or شُيُوخَة (šuyūḵa) or شُيُوخِيَّة (šuyūḵiyya) or شَيْخُوخَة (šayḵūḵa) or شَيْخُوخِيَّة (šayḵūḵiyya))

1. (intransitive) to become elderly; to age; to senesce

شاخ (şax)

1. mountain

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćā́kʰaH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱókh₂eh₂ (“branch”). Cognate with Sanskrit शाखा (śākhā, “branch, twig, limb, finger”), Old Armenian ցախ (cʻax, “branch, twig”), Lithuanian šakà (“branch”), Gothic 𐌷𐍉𐌷𐌰 (hōha, “plough”), Old East Slavic соха (soxa, “stake, club, brace, plough”), Old Irish géc (“branch”).

شاخ • (šāx / šâx) (Tajik spelling шох)

1. horn, antler
2. a branch, bough, shoot, sucker, twig
3. the arm, from the tip of the finger to the shoulder
4. the leg, from the groin to the foot
5. a small cut from a main stream
6. the spur of a cock
7. a rib
8. a bit, piece
9. a gusset, gore
10. the forehead
11. the main beam in the roof of a house
12. a cup of wine (from a custom prevailing in Jurjistān, to drink wine out of horns), a goblet, a drinking-horn
13. wine mixed with rose-water
14. a horn wherein they keep civet, a scent-box
15. civet
16. the civet-cat
17. spices, perfumes

• شاخی (šâxi)
• شاخه (šâxe)
• تک‌شاخ (tak-šâx)

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَاخ (šāx). Doublet of شاکھا (śākhā).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃɑːx/

شاخ • (śāx) f (Hindi spelling शाख़)

1. horn; antler
2. tree branch, bough

   Synonym: ڈالی (ḍālī)

   • 1987, گُلْزار [gulzār, Gulzar], “میرا کُچھ سامان تُمْہارے پاس پَڑا ہَے [merā kuch sāmān tumhāre pās paṛā hai, Some of my belongings are with you]”, in آر ڈِی بَرْمَن [ār ḍī barman, R. D. Burman] (music), اِجازَت [ijāzat, Permission]‎^[1], performed by آشا بھوسْلے [āśā bhosle, Asha Bhosle]:

     پَت جَھڑ کِی وہ شاخ اَبھِی تَک کان٘پ رَہی ہَے
     وہ شاخ گِرا دو میرا وہ سامان لَوٹا دو

     pat jhaṛ kī vo śāx abhī tak kā̃p rahī hai
     vo śāx girā do merā vo sāmān lauṭā do

     That branch of autumn still shakes
     Let that branch fall, return my belongings

3. (by extension) organizational branch

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “شاخ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 810
• Platts, John T. (1884), “شاخ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 716
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “شاخ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 398
• “شاخ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “شاخ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1146
• “شاخ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.