بَخْتٌ

Fortune; or particularly good fortune; synonym جَدٌّ, (S, A, K,) and حَظٌّ: (Msb, TA:) a foreign, or Persian, word, (Msb,) arabicized: (S, K:) or post-classical: according to the 'Ináyeh, not a chaste Arabic word: but in the Shifá el-Ghaleel said to have been used by the Arabs in ancient times; and the like is said in the L: Az says, “ I know not if it be Arabic or not. ” (TA.)