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
6. idol

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

بَد (bəd)

1. Arabic spelling of bəd (“evil”)

From Arabic بِوِدِّ‎ (biwiddi).

بد • (badd, bidd)

1. want to

   ‏بدي شوفك كل يوم، يا حبيبي‎

   Baddi šūfak kill yōm, ya ḥabībi.

   I want to see you every day, my dear.

2. should; need

   ‏شو بدنا نئللو؟‎‎

   Šu badna nʾil-lu?

   What should we tell him?

• The past is formed by adding كان‎ (kēn), which originally would be left unchanged, but is now equally commonly conjugated. Thus: كان بدي شوفك (kēn baddi šūfak) or كنت بدي شوفك (kint baddi šūfak), both “I wanted to see you.”

From Persian بد‎ (bad).

بد‎ • (bed)

1. bad

• IPA^(key): /bəd/

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بد • (bëd)

1. bad

بد • (bad)

1. badly

From Middle Persian SLYA / wt' (wad, “bad, evil”), from Proto-Iranian *watah. Akin to Old Armenian վատ (vat), an Iranian borrowing. Unrelated to English bad, despite phonetic and semantic identity.

• IPA^(key): /bad/

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بَد • (bad) (comparative بَدتَر‎ (bad-tar), superlative بَدتَرین‎ (bad-tarin))

1. bad; not good
2. evil

• خوب‎ (xub)

بَد • (bad)

1. poorly, badly

• بدی‎ (badi)

• → Bengali: বদ (bod)
• → Khalaj: bəd
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਬਦ (bad)

  Shahmukhi script: بد‎ (bad)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “wad”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 85

From Middle Persian -pt' (-bed), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pátiš (compare Old Armenian պետ (pet), an Iranian borrowing), from Proto-Indo-European *pótis (“master”).

بد • (-bad, -bed, -bod)

1. lord, master

• 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

From Arabic بِوِدِّ‎ (biwiddi).

• IPA^(key): /bidd/, [bɪd]

بدّ • (bidd-)

1. (false verb) to want

   ‏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.

   Synonym: حبّ‎ (ḥabb)

2. (false verb, by extension) to need

   ‏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.”)

   Synonym: احتاج‎ (iḥtāj)

3. (auxiliary) will, going to

   ‏بدي أمرق لعنده بكرة.‎‎

   biddi ʔamroʔ la-ʕindo bukra.

   I'm going to go to his house tomorrow.

   Synonym: رح‎ (raḥ)

• 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 Persian بد‎ (bad).

بد • (bad) (Hindi spelling बद)

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

Borrowed from Sanskrit वृन्ध (vṛndha).

بد • (bad) m (Hindi spelling बद)

1. bubo