باد

• IPA^(key): /baː.da/

بَادَ • (bāda) I (non-past يَبِيدُ (yabīdu), verbal noun بَيْد (bayd) or بُيُود (buyūd) or بَيَاد (bayād) or بَيْدُودَة (baydūda))

1. to perish, to die, to become extinct

   Synonyms: فَنِيَ (faniya), هَلَكَ (halaka), زَهَقَ (zahaqa), زَالَ (zāla)

   Antonyms: بَقِيَ (baqiya), دَامَ (dāma)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:35:

     وَدَخَلَ جَنَّتَهُ وَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ لِّنَفْسِهِ قَالَ مَا أَظُنُّ أَن تَبِيدَ هَٰذِهِ أَبَدًا

     wadaḵala jannatahu wahuwa ẓālimun linafsihi qāla mā ʔaẓunnu ʔan tabīda hāḏihi ʔabadan

     And he entered his garden while he was unjust to himself. He said, "I do not think that this will perish - ever.

Derived from the active participle of بَدَا (badā, “to appear”).

• IPA^(key): /baː.din/

بَادٍ • (bādin) (informal بَادِي (bādī), feminine بَادِيَة (bādiya), masculine plural بَادُونَ (bādūna) or بُدَاة (budāh))

1. apparent, evident, obvious, plain, visible
2. inhabiting the desert

Borrowed from Persian باد (bâd, “wind; air”), itself from Proto-Iranian *HwáHatah (“wind”).

باد • (bâd) (definite accusative بادی (bâdı), plural بادلر (bâdlar))

1. wind, the real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure

   Synonyms: روزكار (rüzgâr), ریح (rih), یل (yel)

2. air, the substance constituting Earth's atmosphere, a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases

   Synonym: هوا (hava)

3. breath, spiration, ventilation, the rhythmical process of moving air into and out of the lungs to facilitate gas exchange

   Synonyms: دم (dam), صولوق (soluk), نفس (nefes)

• Turkish: bad

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bad5”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 417
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “bâd”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 76
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ventus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1732
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 629-630
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bad”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 316

Borrowed from Persian باد (bâd). Doublet of وو (wō).

• IPA^(key): /bɑd/

باد • (bād) m

1. wind

• Raverty, H. G. (1867) “باد”, in A dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or language of the Afghans: with remarks on the originality of the language, and its affinity to other oriental tongues, London: Williams & Nortgate

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From Middle Persian wād, from Proto-Iranian *HwáHatah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwáHatas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“wind”).^[1]

باد • (bâd)

1. wind

   باد شرق ― bâd-e šarq ― east wind

   باد تند ― bâd-e tond ― harsh wind

   سرو در باد ارتعاش داشت. ― sarv dar bâd erte'âš dâšt. ― The cypress trembled in the wind.

2. air

   Synonym: هوا (havâ)

3. (medicine) inflammation; swelling
4. (medicine) windiness
5. (colloquial) pride

   Synonym: غرور (ġorur)

   با باد و فیس ― bâ bâd o fis ― with pride and haughtiness

• → Indonesian: bad
• → Pashto: باد (bâd)
• → Urdu: باد (bād)

Shortened form of بواد (bovâd), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bawād), an old inherited optative form.

باد • (bâd)

1. (poetic, literary) Third-person singular present optative of بودن (budan).

   شرم بر شما باد ― šarm bar šomâ bâd! ― Shame be upon you!

• باشد (bâšad)(subjunctive form that has some overlap in meaning)

From Classical Persian باد (bād, “wind; air”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑːd̪/

باد • (bād) f (Hindi spelling बाद)

1. air
2. wind; breeze; gale

• بادِ بَہار (bād-e-bahār, “spring breeze”)
• بادِ عِیسیٰ (bād-e-'īsa, “skillful physician”, literally “breath of Jesus”)
• بادِ ہَوائی (bād-e-havāī, “meaningless, useless”, literally “wind of wind”)

• “باد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “باد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “باد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “باد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

From Pashto باد (bād).

باد (bād)

1. wind
2. smell