باعث

Derived from the active participle of the verb بَعَثَ (baʕaṯa).

• IPA^(key): /baː.ʕiθ/

بَاعِث • (bāʕiṯ) (form I)

1. active participle of بَعَثَ (baʕaṯa, “to raise, to resurrect”)

• البَاعِث (al-bāʕiṯ, “the Raiser of the Dead, one of the names of God in Islam”)

• → Azerbaijani: bais
  • → Udi: байис (bajis), вайис (vajis)
• → Talysh: bais
• → Persian: باعِث (bâ'es)

Borrowed from Arabic بَاعِث (bāʕiṯ, “raiser, one who raises”).

باعث • (bā'is / bâ'es) (Tajik spelling боъис)

1. cause, motive

   سیگار باعث سرطان می‌شود.

   sīgār  / sigâr bā'is-i / bâ'es-e saratān mē-šawad. / saratân mi-šavad.

   Smoking causes cancer.

   (literally, “Smoking becomes the cause of cancer.”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian باعث (bā'is), from Arabic بَاعِث (bāʕiṯ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑː.(ʔ)ɪs/

باعِث • (bā'is) m (Hindi spelling बाइस)

1. cause, reason
2. root, origin, basis

• “باعث”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “باعث”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.