köken: From Middle High German bœse, bōse, from Old High German bōsi, from Proto-West Germanic *bausī, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, puffed up, arrogant, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bew- (“to blow, inflate, swell”), akin to Yiddish בייז (beyz), Dutch boos, and English boast.
köken: Inherited from Middle French foible, from Old French feble, foible, from Vulgar Latin *febilis, dissimilated form of Latin flēbilis. Doublet of flébile, a borrowing. Compare English feeble.
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 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.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese feo (“ugly”), from Latin foedus (“hideous”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to frighten; be afraid”). Cognate with Galician feo, Asturian feu and Spanish feo.
köken: From Ancient Greek ἄσχημος (áskhēmos), from Ancient Greek ἀσχήμων (askhḗmōn). By surface analysis, α- (a-) + σχήμα (schíma) + -ος (-os), compositionally equivalent to English unshapely.
köken: From Old Japanese 弱し (*yo₁wasi), from Proto-Japonic *yowa-. Although not phonetically attested in Old Japanese texts in man'yōgana, the name of a king varies between 目弱王 in the Kojiki and 眉輪王, read as mayo₁wa-WAU in the Nihon Shoki.
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…
weak, delicate (unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain) · weak, feeble, frail, faint (lacking in force, strength or ability) · weak, slight, meager (lacking in taste, potency or severity)
çekim: karşılaştırma heikompi · üstünlük heikoin
zıt: vahva, tukeva, luja, vankka, kova, terve
köken: Unknown. Related to Ingrian heikko, Kukkuzi heikko and probably Veps heikembāńe (“weaker”) (South Veps), although such a word is barely attested. Compare also dialectal Estonian äigima (“to die down, subside, weaken”), dialectal Võro heik (“vain”).