Bakhshi ( fa, بخشی; adjective form of

Bakhsh A ( fa, بخش, also romanized as ) is a third-level administrative division of Iran. While sometimes translated as "county," it is more accurately translated as "district," similar to a township in the United States or a district of En ...

– a type of administrative division of Iran – which in itself is a

hyponym In linguistics, semantics, general semantics, and ontologies, hyponymy () is a semantic relation between a hyponym denoting a subtype and a hypernym or hyperonym (sometimes called umbrella term or blanket term) denoting a supertype. In other ...

of the Persian noun بخش (baxš), meaning part, portion; section; district; fortune) is a

Dari Dari (, , ), also known as Dari Persian (, ), is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the term officially recognised and promoted since 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language,Lazard, G.Darī ...

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

i and

Indian Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asia ...

surname.
Notable people with the surname include: * Esmail Bakhshi (born 1983), Iranian political prisoner *

Enayatollah Bakhshi Enayatollah Bakhshi ( fa, , also known Enayat Bakhshi) is an Iranian veteran actor. During six decades of artistic activity, he has appeared in more than 170 plays and considered one of the most well-known actors played the antihero role in the ...

(born 1945), Iranian veteran actor * Jon Bakhshi (born 19??), American restaurateur of Iranian Jewish descent * Mohammad Tawfiq Bakhshi (born 1986), Afghan judoka * Rajan Bakhshi (born 19??), Indian Army General officer *

Sandeep Bakhshi Sandeep Bakhshi (born 28 May 1960) is an Indian banker, and the MD & CEO, ICICI Bank since October 2018. Early life Bakhshi earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, and has a postgraduate degree in m ...

(born 1960/61), Indian banker bakhshi was the title given to Military paymaster during Akbar regime in India.

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{{surname, Bakhshi Persian-language surnames Dari-language surnames

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