бадава
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Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish بداوا (bedâva) (Turkish bedava), from Persian باد هوا (bâd-e havâ).[1] First attested in the 18th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]бада̀ва (Latin spelling badàva)
- (regional) free, for free, gratis
- (regional) cheap, inexpensive, affordable
- (regional) in vain, futile
- (regional, intensifier) indeed, really
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “badàva”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 36
Further reading
[edit]- “бадава”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2024
- “бадава”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024