бадава

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /badǎʋa/
  • Hyphenation: ба‧да‧ва

Adverb

бада̀ва (Latin spelling badàva)

  1. (regional) free, for free, gratis
  2. (regional) cheap, inexpensive, affordable
  3. (regional) in vain, futile
  4. (regional, intensifier) indeed, really

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ 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

  • 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