بدا

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.daː/

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Verb

بَدَا • (badā) I, non-past يَبْدُو‎ (yabdū)

1. to appear

   Synonym: ظَهَرَ (ẓahara)

   Antonyms: خَفَى (ḵafā), غَابَ (ḡāba)

2. to become evident, clear

Conjugation

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “بدا”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “بدا”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَدَأَ (badaʔa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bdaː/

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Verb

بدا • (bdā) I (non-past يبدا (yibda))

1. to begin, to start

Conjugation

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South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَدَأَ (badaʔa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.da/,

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Verb

بدا • (bada) I (present ببدا (bibda))

1. (intransitive, transitive) to begin, to start

   Synonym: بلّش (ballaš)

   Antonym: خلّص (ḵallaṣ)

   ايمتى بدّه يبدا الاجتماع؟

   emta biddo yibda l-ijtimāʕ?

   When is the meeting going to start?

   بدا قتال بين شباب المدرستين.

   bada ʔtāl bēn šabāb il-madrastēn.

   A fight broke out between the guys from the two schools.

   (literally, “A fight started between the guys of the two schools.”)

   اليوم بديت شغلي الساعة تمانية بالزبط.

   il-yōm badēt šuḡli s-sāʕa tamānye biẓ-ẓabṭ.

   Today I started work at eight o'clock.

   بدا علاقة مع بنت عشر سنين ازغر منه.

   bada ʕalāqa maʕ bint ʕašr snīn azḡar minno.

   He got into a relationship with a girl ten years younger than him.

   (literally, “He started a relationship with a girl ten years younger than him.”)

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