بد

From the root ب د د‎ (b-d-d). The meaning idol is from Persian بُتْ‎ (bot).

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

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

بد (badd, bidd)

1. (false verb) want to

   ‏بدي شوفك كل يوم، يا حبيبي‎

   Baddī šūfak kill yōm, yā ḥbībī.

   I want to see you every day, my dear.

2. (false verb) should; need

   ‏شو بدنا نئللو؟‎‎

   Šū badnā nʾil-lū?

   What should we tell him?

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”). Akin to Old Armenian վատ (vat), an Iranian borrowing. Unrelated to English bad, despite phonetic and semantic identity.

• IPA^(key): /bæd/

• Harakat: بَد

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بد • (bad) (comparative بدتر‎, superlative بدترین‎)

1. bad; not good
2. evil

• خوب‎ (xub)

بد • (bad)

1. poorly, badly

• بدی‎ (badi)

• 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-Iranian [Term?] (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

بِدّ (bɪdd)

1. want

   ‏بَدِّي أَشُوفَك كُلّ يُوم يَا حَبِيبِي.‎‎

   biddī ašūfak kull yōm yā ḥabībī.

   I want to see you every day, my dear.

From Persian بد‎ (bad).

بد • (bad) (Hindi spelling बद)

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

From Sanskrit वृन्ध (vṛndha).

بد • (bad) m (Hindi spelling बद)

1. bubo