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Hebrew
Etymology
From לֹא (lo, “not”) + ב־ (b'-, “in, for”) + Aramaic כְּדִי (k'dí), the latter probably a shortening of כְּדִיב (k'div) cognate with Hebrew כָּזָב (kazav).[1]
Adverb
לֹא בִּכְדִי • (lo bikhdí)
- not for nothing, not in vain
1995, Ram Oren, משחק מכור [A Sold Game], Keter Publishing House Ltd, →ISBN, page 242:לא בכדי הגיע לאן שהגיע, לא בכדי נהג לגבות שכר טרחה גבוה מכולם.- He did not get where he is for nothing, not for nothing did he usually take the highest work fee of all of them.
References
- ^ “לֹא בִּכְדִי”, in The Academy of the Hebrew Language website (in Hebrew), 2015 November 1, retrieved 2016-12-03