bedava
Crimean Tatar
Alternative forms
- badihava
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بداوا (see Turkish below), from Persian.
Adverb
bedava
References
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بداوا (bedava), from Persian باد آورد (bâd-âvard), from باد (bâd, “wind”) and آورد (âvard, “borne”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be.dɑːvɑ/
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Adverb
bedava
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bedava”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بداوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 346