köken: Inherited from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis; either remade based on the Latin or evolved from the Old French form crual, possibly from a Vulgar Latin form *crūdālis.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin male Spanish mal Inherited from Latin male.
aile: bien que mal, mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos, mal nacido, mal que bien, mal que te pese, mal visto, malparido, más vale solo que mal acompañado, menos mal, si mal no me acuerdo
köken: Inherited from Latin captīvus (“captive” → “caught by the devil” → “bad”). Compare the semantic development of French chétif (“puny, scrawny”) and Galician cativo.
köken: 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.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yaman (“bad”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jaman, “bad”); Bashkir яман (yaman), Karakalpak жаман (jaman) / jaman, Kyrgyz жаман (jaman), Karachay-Balkar аман (aman), Uzbek yomon, Azerbaijani and Turkish yaman, etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yaman (“bad”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jaman, “bad”); Bashkir яман (yaman), Karakalpak жаман (jaman) / jaman, Kazakh жаман (jaman), Karachay-Balkar аман (aman), Uzbek yomon, Azerbaijani, Turkish yaman, etc.
köken: From Persian ناچار (nâčâr, “without choice; helpless”). Cognate with Tatar начар (naçar), Kyrgyz начар (nacar), Kazakh нашар (naşar), Uzbek nochor, Uyghur ناچار (nachar, “bad”), etc.
to be bad (various meanings) · to be bad; to be evil; to be ill-natured · to be bad, to be immoral
eş: 악하다, 못하다
zıt: 좋다, 착하다, 옳다
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 낟ᄇᆞ다〮 (Yale: nàt-pò-tá), equivalent to unattested verb *낟다〮 (Yale: *nàt-tá) + ᄫᆞ (Yale: -Wo-, adjective-deriving suffix). Middle Korean meaning: "to be insufficient". Later largely displaced 궂다〮 (Yale: kwùc-tá), the Middle Korean generic word for "bad", nowadays used mainly in reference to the weather and in idiomatic…
From Malay jahat, from Classical Malay جاهت (jahat), from Old Malay [script needed] (jāhat), from Proto-Malayic *jahət, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zaqat (“bad, evil”).