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 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.
çekim: karşılaştırma mais alto · üstünlük o mais alto
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese alto, from Latin altus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin. This form is likely a semi-learned term, or was influenced by learned elements of the language and uses such an orthography, as with Galician and Spanish alto (which have popularly inherited variants outo and oto, respectively). There was once likely an *outo in Old Galician-Portuguese that is not…
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 Proto-Finnic *ilkëda, probably borrowed (and derived) from Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz (“bad, evil”). Cognates include Karelian ilkie, Estonian ilge, English ill.