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 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…
a criminal, chiefly a thief or robber · a crook (dishonest, immoral, etc. person) · the culprit, the villain of the piece (the person or thing that is the cause of trouble)
çekim: çoğul bovar · tamlayan bovs
köken: From Old Swedish bōve, from Middle Low German bōve, from Proto-Germanic *bō-.
aile: miljöbov
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Inherited from Middle French maulvais, from Old French malvais, malveis (“evil, wicked, bad, of poor or inferior quality", later also "unlucky”), from Late Latin malifātius (“unfortunate”, 4th c.), from Latin malus (“bad”) + fātum (“fate”). Cognate with Italian malvagio, and with Spanish and Portuguese malvado, all of them through Old Occitan malvatz. According to some sources, influenced by…