bedava
Crimean Tatar
    
    Alternative forms
    
- badihava
Etymology
    
From Ottoman Turkish بداوا (see Turkish below), from Persian.
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/
References
    
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bedava”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بداوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 346
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