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badava

Catalan

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Verb

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badava

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of badar

Italian

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Verb

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badava

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of badare

Paumarí

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Noun

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badava m

  1. the son of a woman's sister
  2. the son of a man's brother

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish بداوا (bedâva) (Turkish bedava), from Persian باد هوا (bâd-e havâ).[1] First attested in the 18th century.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /badǎʋa/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧da‧va

Adverb

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badàva (Cyrillic spelling бада̀ва)

  1. (regional) free of charge, for free, gratis
  2. (regional) cheaply, inexpensively, affordably
  3. (regional) in vain, futile
  4. (regional, dated, intensifier) indeed, really

Synonyms

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “badàva”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 36

Further reading

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  • “badava”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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