köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der. Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰandʰás Proto-Iranian *bandáh Persian بند Inherited from Old Persian *bandah, from Proto-Iranian *bandáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰandʰás, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”). Compare Old Armenian բանտ (bant, “prison”), an Iranian borrowing. More at band, bind. Doublet of باند (bând).
köken: Borrowed from English verse, ultimately from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).
the metrical part of a sūtra · name of the āryā metre · any metre not enumerated in the regular treatises on prosody (compare ऋग्गाथा (ṛg-gāthā), ऋजुगाथ (ṛju-gātha), यज्ञगाथा (yajña-gāthā))
çekim: çoğul गाथाः॑ · tamlayan गाथा॑याः
köken: From Proto-Indo-Aryan *gáHtʰaH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gáHtʰaH. Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁 (gāθā, “form of strophe, metre, namely the collections of Zarathustra's songs”). The same PII root *gaH- gave the Sanskrit verb गायति (gāyati, “to sing”).