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

• “بد” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “بد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

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/

• Harakat: بَد

Adjective

بد • ‎(bad) ‎(comparative بدتر, superlative بدترین)

1. bad; not good
2. evil

Antonyms

• خوب ‎(xub)

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

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “بد”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “-bed”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 18

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