بلخ

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَلْخ (balx).

• IPA^(key): /balx/

بَلْخ • (balḵ) f

1. Balkh (a city in Balkh Province, Afghanistan)
2. Balkh Province (a province of Afghanistan) (وِلَايَة بَلْخ (wilāya balḵ))

• بَلْخِيّ (balḵiyy, “Balkhi”)
• قَرْحَة بَلْخِيَّة (qarḥa(t) balḵiyya), حَبَّة بَلْخِيَّة (ḥabba(t) balḵiyya), بَلْخِيَّة (balḵiyya, “cutaneous leishmaniasis”)

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (Balx), transposed from [Book Pahlavi needed] (bʾhl /⁠Baxl⁠/), apparently the Sogdian form 𐫁𐫆𐫓 (bẖl /⁠Baxl⁠/, “Bactria”) of Old Persian 𐎲𐎠𐎧𐎫𐎼𐎡𐏁 (b-a-x-t-r-i-š /⁠Bāxtriš⁠/, “Bactria”).

Readings
Classical reading?	balx
Dari reading?	balx
Iranian reading?	balx
Tajik reading?	balx

Dari	بلخ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Балх

بلخ • (balx)

1. Balkh (a town in Balkh, province of Afghanistan, historically an ancient city and centre of Buddhism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism and capital of Bactria.)
2. Balkh (a province of Afghanistan, named after the ancient city)

   ولایت بلخ ― velâyat-e balx ― the province of Balkh, Balkh Province

• بلخی (balxi)

• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 31 Nr. 37