köken: Grassman variant of भाठा (bhāṭhā), from Prakrit भट्ठ (bhaṭṭha), from Sanskrit भ्रष्ट (bhraṣṭa, “fallen, ruined”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰraštás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrn̥ḱtós (“deviated, corrupted”), from *bʰrenḱ- (“to deviate, corrupt”). There was semantic shift in Prakrits from moral decline to literal (physical) decline, often in relation with water. Cognate with Assamese ভাটা…
köken: Inherited from Eastern Magadhi Apabhramsa *𑀪𑀝𑁆𑀝 (*bhaṭṭa), deaspirated from Prakrit 𑀪𑀝𑁆𑀞 (bhaṭṭha, “fallen, declined”), from Sanskrit भ्रष्ट (bhraṣṭa, “fallen, ruined”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰraṣṭás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰraštás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrn̥ḱtós (“deviated, corrupted”), from *bʰrenḱ- (“to deviate, corrupt”), with semantic shift in Prakrits from moral decline to literal…