بد

Sense 6 is a semantic loan from Classical Persian بُت (but).

بُدّ • (budd) m (plural بِدَدَة (bidada) or أَبْدَاد (ʔabdād))

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
7. idol

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “بد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “بد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

بَدَّ • (badda) I (non-past يَبُدُّ (yabuddu), verbal noun بَدّ (badd))

1. to disperse, distribute, spread

بَد (bəd)

1. Arabic spelling of bəd (“evil”)

From Arabic بِوِدِّ (biwiddi, literally “in the desire of”), also بِوَدِّ (biwaddi).

بد • (badd-, bidd-)

1. to want

   بدي شوفك كل يوم يا حبيبي

   baddi šūfak kill yōm yā ḥabībi

   I want to see you every day, my dear.

2. should; to need to; have to

   شو بدنا نقلو ― šu baddna nʔillo? ― What should we we tell him?

3. going to

   Synonym: رح (raḥ)

   انتبه بدها توقع ― ntibih badda tūʔaʕ ― Watch out, it's going to fall

• This is a pseudoverb: it conjugates for its subject by using an enclitic pronoun and does not take attached object pronouns. Objects are instead typically attached to the carrier يا (yā-, yyā-), although some dialects permit the third-person subject pronouns to be used in this position instead:
  • ما بدهن ياني بدهن ياها ― ma baddon yāni baddon yāha ― They don't want me, they want her
  • ما بدهن ياني بدهن هي (regional) ― ma baddon yāni baddon hiyye ― They don't want me, they want her
• The past is formed by adding كان (kān), which originally would be left unchanged, but is now equally commonly conjugated. Thus: كان بدي شوفك (kān baddi šūfak) or كنت بدي شوفك (kint baddi šūfak), both “I wanted to see you.”
• In the sense “going to”, suggests more intent than the similar term رح (raḥ, “going to”).
• The "we" conjugation, most commonly بدنا (baddna, biddna), has the alternative forms بَنّا (banna) and مَنّا (manna).

• → Western Neo-Aramaic: [script needed] (batt-, “to need; will”)

From Persian بد (bad).

بد • (bed)

1. bad

• IPA^(key): /bəd/

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بد • (bəd)

1. bad

بد • (bad)

1. badly

From Middle Persian [script needed] (SLYA) / [script needed] (wt' /⁠wad⁠/, “bad, evil”), from Proto-Iranian *watah, with further origin uncertain. Akin to Old Armenian վատ (vat), an Iranian borrowing. Unrelated to English bad, despite phonetic and semantic similarity.

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بَد • (bad) (comparative بَدتَر, superlative بَدتَرین)

1. bad; not good
2. evil

• خوب (xub)

بَد • (bad)

1. poorly, badly

• → Azerbaijani: bəd-
• → Bengali: বদ (bod)
• → Hindi: बद (bad)
• → Khalaj: bəd
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਬਦ (bad)

  Shahmukhi script: بد (bad)

• → Sylheti: ꠛꠣꠖ (bad)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wad”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 85
• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 46

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭯𐭥𐭭 (pʿn) / PWN (pad, “to, at, in, on”).

• (Mashhad) IPA^(key): /bez/

بد • (bed or bad) (archaic)

1. alternative form of به (be, “to; in; for”)

Only used in compounds.

• بذ (bez, baz) (archaic or dialectal, Mashhad)

From Arabic بِوِدِّ (biwiddi).

• IPA^(key): /bidd/, [bɪd]

بدّ • (bidd-)

1. (false verb) to want

   Synonym: حبّ (ḥabb)

   بدّك قهوة؟ ― biddak ʔahwe? ― Do you want some coffee?

   بدي أشوفك كل يوم يا حبيبي.

   biddi ʔašūfak kull yōm ya ḥabībi.

   I want to see you every day, my dear.

2. (false verb, by extension) to need

   Synonym: احتاج (iḥtāj)

   ابني مريض كتير وبدّه دوا ضروري.

   ibni marīḍ ktīr w biddo dawa ḍurūri.

   My son is very sick and needs medicine.

   (literally, “My son is very sick and wants medicine necessarily.”)

3. (auxiliary) will, going to

   Synonym: رح (raḥ)

   بدي أمرق لعنده بكرة.

   biddi ʔamroʔ la-ʕindo bukra.

   I'm going to go to his house tomorrow.

• Similar to terms like عند (ʕind, “to have”), the term بدّ (bidd) is "conjugated" with enclitic pronouns. Unlike عند (ʕind), however, بدّ (bidd) has no inherent meaning and can never be used entirely by itself.

Borrowed from Classical Persian بد (bad). Unrelated to English bad.

بد • (bad) (comparative بدتر, superlative بدترین, Hindi spelling बद)

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

• برا (burā)

• نظرِ بد (nazr-e bad, “evil eye, bad eye”)

Borrowed from Sanskrit वृन्ध (vṛndha).

بد • (bad) m (Hindi spelling बद)

1. bubo