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بد

بد

See also: پد

Arabic

Noun

بُدّ (budd) m (plural بِدَدَة (bidada) or أَبْدَاد (ʾabdād))

  1. escape, means of avoiding something
    لَا بُدَّ مِن كَذَا
    lā budda min kaḏā
    there is no avoiding such a thing, such a thing is inevitable
  2. flight
  3. separation
  4. part, portion
  5. equivalent, substitute
  6. idol

Declension

References


North Levantine Arabic

Adverb

بد (badd, bidd)

  1. (false verb) want to
    بدي شوفك كل يوم، يا حبيبي
    Baddī šūfak kill yōm, yā ḥabībī.
    I want to see you every day, my dear.

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian بد (bad).

Adjective

بد (bed)

  1. bad

Pashto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bəd/

Adjective

بد (bëd)

  1. bad

Declension

Adverb

بد (bad)

  1. badly

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian SLYA / wt' (wad, bad, evil). Akin to Old Armenian վատ (vat), an Iranian borrowing. Unrelated to English bad, despite phonetic and semantic identity.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bæd/

Adjective

بد (bad) (comparative بدتر, superlative بدترین)

  1. bad; not good
  2. evil
Antonyms

Derived terms

  • بدی (badi)

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “wad”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 85

Adverb

بد (bad)

  1. poorly, badly

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian -pt' (-bed), from Proto-Iranian [Term?] (compare Old Armenian պետ (pet), an Iranian borrowing), from Proto-Indo-European *pótis (master).

Noun

بد (-bad, -bed, -bod)

  1. lord, master

References


South Levantine Arabic

Adverb

بَدّ (badd)

  1. want
    بَدِّي شُوفَك كُلّ يُوم يَا حَبِيبِي.
    baddī šūfak kull yōm yā ḥabībī.
    I want to see you every day, my dear.

Urdu

Etymology 1

From Persian بد (bad).

Adjective

بد (bad) — Hindi spelling: बद (bad)

  1. bad
  2. evil
  3. wicked
  4. inauspicious

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit वृन्ध (vṛndha).

Noun

بد (bad) m (Hindi spelling बद)

  1. bubo