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beşbetər

Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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From Classical Persian بیش بَدْتَر (bēš badtar).[1] Often thought of as the phrase beş (“five”) + betər, i.e. to the effect of "five times worse than".

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [beʃbeˈtær], [beʃpæˈtær]
  • Hyphenation: beş‧be‧tər

Adverb

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beşbetər

  1. even worse [with ablative ‘than’]
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References

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  1. ^ Stachowski, Kamil (2014) Standard Turkic C-Type Reduplications (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia)‎[1], Krakow: Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Institute of Oriental Studies, page 106

Further reading

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