bedava
Crimean Tatar edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish بداوا (see Turkish below), from Persian.
Adverb edit
bedava
References edit
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish بداوا (bedava), from Persian باد آورد (bâd-âvard), from باد (bâd, “wind”) and آورد (âvard, “borne”).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
bedava
References edit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bedava”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بداوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 346