# bad
## Translingual
### Symbol

bad
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Banda languages.

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bæd/
* (General Australian) IPA: /bæːd/
* (New Zealand) IPA: /bɛd/
* (Wales) IPA: /baːd/
* (æ-tensing, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore) IPA: /bɛəd/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -æd
* Homophone: bade (one pronunciation)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to bend, press, push, oppress”).

#### Adjective

bad (comparative worse or (nonstandard) badder or (nonstandard) more bad, superlative worst or (nonstandard) baddest or (nonstandard) most bad)
* Of low quality.
    That movie was really bad!
* Inaccurate; incorrect
    A bad guess.
    This sentence has bad grammar!
    He speaks bad German!
* Unfavorable; negative; not good.
    Synonyms: unfavorable, negative; see also Thesaurus:bad
    Hiring practice is very bad in this company.
    The weather looks pretty bad right now.
    You have very bad grades.
    He is in a bad mood.
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
* Not suitable or fitting.
    Synonyms: inappropriate, unfit; see also Thesaurus:unsuitable
    Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?
* Not appropriate, of manners etc.
    It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:“ […] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […] ”
* Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
    Synonyms: unhealthful, unwholesome; see also Thesaurus:harmful
    Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans.
* (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
    Synonyms: ill, poorly, sickly; see also Thesaurus:ill
    Joe's in a bad way; he can't even get out of bed.
    I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state.
    I've had a bad back since the accident.
* (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
    Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!
** 2014 August 28, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):I can tell that new kid at our daycare is trouble […] He's picking out his favorite corner to stand in when he's bad.
* Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
    Synonyms: foul, loathsome; see also Thesaurus:unpleasant
    Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.
* (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
    Synonyms: vile, vicious; see also Thesaurus:evil
    Be careful. There are bad people in the world.
* Faulty; not functional.
    Synonyms: inoperative; see also Thesaurus:out of order
    I had a bad headlight.
* (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
    Synonyms: rotten; see also Thesaurus:rotten
    These apples have gone bad.
* (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:malodorous
    Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone.
* False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
    Synonyms: fake, spurious; see also Thesaurus:fake
    They were caught trying to pass bad coinage.
* Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
    Synonyms: bungling, inept; see also Thesaurus:unskilled
    I'm pretty bad at speaking French.
    He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.
* Of poor physical appearance.
    Synonyms: repulsive, unsightly; see also Thesaurus:ugly
    I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.
    I don't look bad in this dress, do I?
    I have such bad skin!
* (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
    Synonyms: dire; see also Thesaurus:urgent
    He is in bad need of a haircut.
** 1965, Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein, Bobby Hart (lyrics and music), “Hurt So Bad”, in Hurt So Bad, performed by The Lettermen:Oh let me tell you that it / Hurts so bad / It makes me feel so sad / You make it hurt so bad / To see you again.
* Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
    I feel so bad for betraying him!
* (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
    Don't you dare speak to me with that bad language!
* Not worth it.
    The expensive purse was a bad buy.

##### Synonyms

* abandoned
* abominable
* base
* corrupt
* deficient
* detestable
* disgusting
* inferior
* lousy
* off
* poor
* punk
* substandard
* unacceptable
* ungodly
* unsatisfactory
* vicious
* wanting
* wretched
* wrong

##### Antonyms

* adequate
* advantageous
* beneficial
* benevolent
* choice
* competent
* excellent
* exceptional
* first-class
* first-rate
* good
* honest
* just
* premium
* prime
* profitable
* propitious
* reputable
* right
* sincere
* sufficient
* superior
* true
* upright
* virtuous
* worthy

#### Adjective

bad (not comparable)
* (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
    Synonyms: rubber, hot
    He gave me a bad check.

#### Adjective

bad (comparative badder or more bad, superlative baddest or most bad)
(slang)
* Bold, daring, and tough.
    Synonyms: (slang) badass; see also Thesaurus:brave
    He's the baddest guy in town!
* Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:good
    Man, that new car you bought is bad!
    You is bad, man!
** 1986, Darryl McDaniels, Joseph Simmons (lyrics and music), “Peter Piper”, in Raising Hell, performed by Run-DMC:He's the big bad wolf in your neighborhood / not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good
** 1994, “Best Ever” (track 7), in N2Deep (lyrics), 24-7-365:Man, that bitch was bad—it was the best piece of pussy that I ever had.
* (US, slang) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous
** 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown‎, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:You leave your girl around me; if she's bad she's gonna get stuck.
* (originally African-American Vernacular, slang, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
    Hopefully I can pull some bad bitches tonight.
* (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
    Orange Man bad
** 2020 October 7, @morkitten, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:"don't buy chinese games because china bad!!" folks I have good news about a little country called the United States of America
** 2020 October 11, u/EarthToAccess, “Sad moment right here”, in Reddit‎, r/redditmoment, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:fake reddit moment, he's on tiktok and we all know tiktok bad 😤😤😤
** 2023 January 24, u/ThunderEagle222, “"NATO doesn't win because it has better technology! They only win because their technology is better!"”, in Reddit‎, r/NonCredibleDefense, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:These kind of people only hate the Iraq invasion cuz "USA bad". Not because they truly care about Iraqi's.
** 2023 March 21, @SpectrVolcarona, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:-now everyone says it was "never good" because "popular thing bad" and now you're not allowed to like it anymore because it is now against the unspoken social rules thats fucking so great I hate that this happens to everything I like
** 2023 November 28, u/zeptillian, “This super popular disposable vape device is basically just a tampon soaked in nicotine juice that gets zapped by a small battery to produce vapor.”, in Reddit‎, r/mildlyinteresting, archived from the original on 3 April 2024:Ok well since it's been a thing for like 1.5 decades now, do you think you could give us a clue? ¶ FDA. Nope. Vape bad. You figure it out yourself.
* (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
    That boy is the baddest!
    She's the baddest girl!

##### Derived terms

* a bad penny always comes back
* a bad penny always turns up
* a bad tree does not yield good apples
* a bad workman always blames his tools
* bad actor
* bad aji
* bad apple
* bad appling
* badarse
* bad-ass
* bad ass
* bad-assery
* bad-assness
* Bad Axe
* bad baby
* bad bank
* bad beat
* bad belle
* bad bishop
* bad bitch
* bad blood
* bad books
* bad-boy
* bad boy
* bad breath
* bad business
* badbye
* bad cess
* bad check
* bad cholesterol
* bad comes to worse
* bad comes to worst
* bad company
* bad conscience
* bad debt
* badden
* baddie
* baddish
* bad egg
* Badelaide
* bad ending
* bad eye
* bad facts make bad law
* bad faith
* bad feeling
* badfic
* bad form
* bad for you
* bad girl
* bad guy
* bad hair day
* bad hat
* bad hop
* bad humor
* bad humour
* bad influence
* bad iron
* baditude
* bad-jacket
* bad joke
* bad-lad split
* bad language
* bad leaver
* bad light
* badling
* bad-looking
* bad loser
* bad lot
* bad luck
* Badman
* badman
* bad-mannered
* bad manners
* bad medicine
* badmin
* bad mind
* bad-minded
* bad money
* bad money drives out good
* bad mood
* bad-mouth
* bad name
* bad-natured
* badness
* bad news
* bad news travels fast
* badnik
* bad off
* bad old days
* bad part of town
* bad patch
* bad penny
* bad press
* bad quarto
* bad rap
* bad scran to someone
* bad seed
* bad show
* bad sign
* badsome
* bad sport
* bad-talk
* bad taste in one's mouth
* bad temper
* bad-tempered
* Bad Thing
* bad things come in threes
* badthink
* bad to beat
* bad to the bone
* bad trip
* bad trot
* bad turn
* bad up
* badvocacy
* badvocate
* badware
* bad weather
* bad winner
* bad word
* bearer of bad news
* be taken bad
* big and bad
* big bad
* break bad
* deal a bad hand
* dirtybadwrong
* do-badder
* down bad
* drop like a bad habit
* fake bad
* feel-bad
* fire is a good servant but a bad master
* get on someone's bad side
* give a bad name
* give a dog a bad name and hang him
* give something up as a bad job
* go bad
* go from bad to worse
* gone bad
* good-bad
* good-cop-bad-cop
* good-cop bad-cop
* good cop-bad cop
* good cop bad cop
* good riddance of bad rubbish
* good riddance to bad rubbish
* go to the bad
* hard cases make bad law
* have a bad time of it
* have it bad
* in a bad spot
* in a bad way
* in bad
* in bad bread
* in bad odor
* in bad odour
* in bad part
* in bad repair
* in bad shape
* in bad taste
* make the best of a bad bargain
* make the best of a bad job
* megabad
* miles of bad road
* my bad
* nonbad
* not bad
* not half bad
* on bad terms
* one bad turn deserves another
* one of His Majesty's bad bargains
* Orange Man bad
* Peck's bad boy
* pour good money after bad
* put the bad mouth on
* so bad it's good
* so far so bad
* something bad
* superbad
* terribad
* the bad penny always comes back
* the bad penny always turns up
* the bad place
* there are bad apples in every orchard
* there is no such thing as bad press
* there is no such thing as bad publicity
* throw good money after bad
* too bad
* with bad grace

##### Translations

Arabic: شَرِير (ar) (šarīr)
Armenian: չար (hy) (čʻar)
Asturian: malu (ast)
Basque: txar
Belarusian: злы (zly)
Bulgarian: лош (bg) (loš), зъл (bg) (zǎl)
Catalan: dolent (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 邪惡 / 邪恶 (zh) (xié'è)
Coptic: ϩⲟⲟⲩ (hoou)
Czech: zlý (cs), podlý (cs)
Dalmatian: ri
Danish: ond (da), slet, slem (da)
Dutch: slecht (nl), kwaad (nl)
Egyptian: (ḏw)
Esperanto: malbona (eo)
Finnish: paha (fi), ilkeä (fi)
French: mauvais (fr), méchant (fr)
Friulian: cjâtif, brut, trist
German: böse (de)
Gothic: 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils)
Greek: κακός (el) (kakós)
Ancient: πονηρός (ponērós)
Haitian Creole: move
Hebrew: רשע (he) m (rashá), מרושע m (merushá), מרושעת f (merusháʽat)
Hungarian: rossz (hu)
Icelandic: vondur (is) m
Ingrian: paha
Irish: droch-, olc
Italian: cattivo (it), malvagio (it)
Japanese: 悪い (ja) (わるい, warui)
Kikuyu: -ũru
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەد (bed)
Latvian: ļauns (lv), slikts (lv)
Malay: jahat (ms)
Marathi: वाईट (vāīṭ)
Norman: mauvais
Norwegian: dårlig (no), ond (no)
Old Church Slavonic: зълъ (zŭlŭ)
Old Turkic: 𐰪𐰃𐰍 (ńiǧ /⁠añïɣ⁠/)
Ottoman Turkish: یامان (yaman)
Pashto: بد (ps) (bad)
Persian: بد (fa) (bad)
Polish: zły (pl)
Portuguese: mau (pt), malvado (pt), ruim (pt)
Punjabi: ਭੈੜਾ (bhaiṛā)
Quechua: millay
Romanian: rău (ro)
Russian: плохо́й (ru) (ploxój), злой (ru) (zloj), по́длый (ru) (pódlyj)
Scots: ill
Scottish Gaelic: dona, droch (gd), olc
Serbo-Croatian: zao (sh), zločest (sh)
Slovak: zlý (sk)
Slovene: slàb (sl), zèl (sl), zli, zloben
Spanish: malo (es)
Swedish: ond (sv)
Tagalog: masama
Telugu: క్రూరమైన (te) (krūramaina)
Thai: เลว (th) (leeo), ชั่ว (th) (chûua), ร้าย (th) (ráai)
Tocharian B: yolo
Tok Pisin: nogut
Turkish: kötü (tr)
Ukrainian: злий (uk) (zlyj)
Venetan: cativo (vec), cilacio, ruo, trist
Volapük: badik (vo)
Welsh: drwg (cy) :
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##### See also

* astray
* base
* bum
* contemptible
* defective
* despicable
* dirty
* execrable
* faulty
* flawed
* inadequate
* insufficient
* lacking
* lesser
* low-grade
* mediocre
* par
* reprehensible
* scurrilous
* second-rate
* under
* unspeakable
* useless
* valueless
* villainous
* worthless

#### Adverb

bad (comparative worse, superlative worst)
* (now colloquial) Badly; poorly.
    I didn't do too bad in the last exam.
    He is quite bad off now that both his parents lost their jobs.
* (intensifier) Badly; severely, extremely, passionately, eagerly.
** 1969, Lennon–McCartney (lyrics and music), “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles:I want you / I want you so bad, it's driving me mad

##### Usage notes

When placed after the main verb, use of bad as an intensifier is often more accepted than badly. Compare:
    I bad need to eat. I badly need to eat.
    I need bad to eat. I need badly to eat.
    I need to eat bad. I need to eat badly.
It is also common in certain set expressions, such as bad off, which may be perceived as an extended form of the adjective bad rather than the adverb bad ~ badly modifying the adjective off.

##### Translations
#### Noun

bad (plural bads)
* Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
** 2001, Ann Belford Ulanov, Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality, page 59:We idealize God as supergoodness in order to protect against a bad that we cannot unite with ourselves.
* (slang, with possessive determiner) Error; mistake.
** 1993, Mitch Albom, Fab five: basketball, trash talk, the American dream‎:"My bad, My bad!” Juwan yelled, scowling
** 2003, Zane, Skyscraper, page 7:“Chico, you're late again.” I turned around and stared him in his beady eyes. “I missed my bus. My bad, Donald.” “Your bad? Your bad? What kind of English is that?
** 2008, Camika Spencer, Cubicles, page 68:Teresa broke out in laughter. “Dang, I sound like I'm talking to my man.” “I tried your cell phone, but you didn't answer.” “I left it at home, Friday. My bad.” “Yeah, your bad.” I laughed. “Really, I'm sorry. It won't happen again.
* (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good. English Wikipedia has an article on:Bad (economics)Wikipedia
** 2011, Henry Thompson, International Economics: Global Markets and Competition, 3rd edition, World Scientific, page 97:Imports are an economic good but exports an economic bad. Exports must be produced but are enjoyed by foreign consumers.
** 2011, William J. Boyes, Michael Melvin, Economics, 9th edition, Cengage Learning, page 4:An economic bad is anything that you would pay to get rid of. It is not so hard to think of examples of bads: pollution, garbage, and disease fit the description.

##### Translations
#### Interjection

bad
* Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet.
    Bad! You know you're not allowed in the kitchen after dinner.

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*badōjan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 47

### Etymology 2

From Middle English bad, from Old English bæd, first- and third-person singular indicative past tense of biddan (“to ask”).

#### Verb

bad
* (archaic) alternative past of bid. See bade.

### Etymology 3

Unknown.

#### Verb

bad (third-person singular simple present bads, present participle badding, simple past and past participle badded)
* (British, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).
** 1876, The Gloucester Journal, Oct. 7, 1876, reported in A. Gregory, “Gloucestershire Dialect,” Notes and Queries, 5th ser., 6, 148 (1876‑10‑28): 346
    A curious specimen of Gloucestershire dialect came out in an assault case heard by the Gloucester court magistrates on Saturday. One of the witnesses, speaking of what a girl was doing at the time the assault took place, said she was ‘badding’ walnuts in a pigstye. The word is peculiarly provincial: to ‘bad’ walnuts is to strip away the husk. The walnut, too, is often called a ‘bannut,’ and hence the old Gloucestershire phrase, ‘Come an’ bad the bannuts.’

### Anagrams

* ABD, ADB, Abd., BDA, D.B.A., DAB, DBA, abd., d/b/a, dab, dba

## Afar
### Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Somali bád and Saho bad.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbad/ [ˈbʌd]
* Hyphenation: bad

### Noun

bád m (plural badoodá f)
* lake, sea, ocean

#### Declension

absolutive
bád
predicative
báda
subjective
bád
genitive
baddí
Postpositioned forms
l-case
bádal
k-case
bádak
t-case
bádat
h-case
bádah :

#### Derived terms

* baddi mára

### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “bad”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 35

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch bad, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *baþą. The plural baddens was probably formed by analogy with beddens (“beds”). The expected form would have been *baaie, which is already the plural of baai (“bay”). Compare phonetically pad > paaie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [bɑt]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bad (plural baddens, diminutive badjie)
* bath

#### Related terms

* baai

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse bað, Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), cognate with English bath and German Bad.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈb̥að]
* Rhymes: -ad

#### Noun

bad n (singular definite badet, plural indefinite bade)
* bath, shower, swim
* bathroom

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈb̥æˀð], [ˈb̥æðˀ]

#### Verb

bad
* past of bede

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈb̥æˀð], [ˈb̥æðˀ]

#### Verb

bad
* imperative of bade

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bad
* Rhymes: -ɑt
* Homophone: Bath

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bat, from Old Dutch *bath, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.

#### Noun

bad n (plural baden, diminutive badje n)
* bath (object)
* the act or process of bathing
* immersion

##### Derived terms

* babybad
* badeend
* baden
* badgast
* badgoed
* badhanddoek
* badhokje
* badhuis
* badinrichting
* badjas
* badjuf
* badjuffrouw
* badkachel
* badkamer
* badkleding
* badknecht
* badkuip
* badlaken
* badlokaal
* badman
* badmantel
* badmat
* badmeester
* badmuts
* badpak
* badparel
* badplaats
* badruimte
* badscène
* badschuim
* badstof
* badwater
* badzout
* bierbad
* bloedbad
* bubbelbad
* buitenbad
* dampbad
* doelgroepenbad
* golfslagbad
* instructiebad
* kinderbad
* kleuterbad
* ligbad
* melkbad
* modderbad
* openluchtbad
* peuterbad
* pierenbad
* poedelbad
* recreatiebad
* slakkenbad
* sponsbad
* stoombad
* stortbad
* taalbad
* verfbad
* voetbad
* warm bad
* wedstrijdbad
* wisselbad
* zandbad
* zaterdagavondbad
* zitbad
* zoutbad
* zoutwaterbad
* zwembad

##### Related terms

* baden

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: bad
* Negerhollands: bad, bat
* →? Sranan Tongo: bat

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

bad
* singular past indicative of bidden

## Gothic
### Romanization

bad
* Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌳

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Classical Persian باد (bād, “wind”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbat̚/

### Noun

bad (plural bad-bad)
* (archaic) wind
    Synonym: angin

#### Related terms

* badai
* balabad

### Further reading

* “bad” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Khasi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːt/

### Conjunction

bad
* and, with
** 1891, “Nongbishar 2:3”, in Ka Baibl (Khasi Bible):Bad ki blei jong ki kin long jingriam ïa phi.And their gods shall be a snare unto you.

## Lushootseed
### Noun

bad
* father

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːt/

### Verb

bad (imperfect jbid, past participle mibjud, verbal noun bidien)
* Alternative form of bied

#### Conjugation
## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* bade (Mooring)
* ber (Sylt)

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bidjaną.

### Pronunciation

* (Föhr-Amrum) IPA: [bad]

### Verb

bad
* (Föhr-Amrum) to ask politely, to beg, request

#### Conjugation
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse bað, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”).

#### Noun

bad n (definite singular badet, indefinite plural bad, definite plural bada or badene)
* a bath
    et varmt bad - a hot bath
* a bathroom (see also baderom)

##### Derived terms

* blodbad
* boblebad

##### Related terms

* bade

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* ba (of be)

#### Verb

bad
* imperative of bade
* simple past of be
* simple past of bede

### References

* “bad” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse bað.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑːd/

#### Noun

bad n (definite singular badet, indefinite plural bad, definite plural bada)
* a bath
    eit varmt bad - a hot bath
* a bathroom

##### Synonyms

* (bathroom): baderom

##### Derived terms

* blodbad
* boblebad

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑː/

#### Verb

bad
* past of be

### References

* “bad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑːd/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *baidu, from Proto-Germanic *baidō.

#### Noun

bād f
* waiting; expectation
* something distrained; pledge, stake

##### Declension

Strong ō-stem:

##### Derived terms

* *ābād
* nīedbād

##### Related terms

* ābīdan
* bīdan

##### Descendants

* Middle English: bade, bode, baide
** English: bode
** Scots: bade, baid

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

bād
* first/third-person singular preterite of bīdan

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* bed

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bað/

### Verb

bad
* inflection of is:
** third-person singular past subjunctive
** third-person singular/second-person plural imperative

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Palauan
### Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *baðu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu. Cognate with Kavalan btu,Tagalog bato, Malay batu, Maori whatu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bað/

### Noun

bad
* stone; rock

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Bad.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbat/
* Rhymes: -at
* Syllabification: bad
* Homophone: bat

### Noun

bad m inan
* (dated) health resort (resort, such as a spa, providing services designed to improve people's health)
    Synonyms: kurort, uzdrowisko, zdrojowisko
    Hyponym: spa

#### Declension
### Further reading

* bad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Salar
### Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ).

### Pronunciation

* (Ili, Xinjiang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA: /pɑt/, /pɑd/

### Noun

bad
* duck

### References

* Potanin, G.N. (1893) “пат”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 431
* Yanchuk, Mikola Andriyovich (1893) “бад”, in Этнографическое ОбозрѢніе: Императорскаго Общества Любителей Естествознанія, Антропологіи и Этнографіи [Ethnographical Review: Imperial Society of Lovers of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography]‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Publication of the Ethnographic Department, page 13
* Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “bad”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 439
* 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “bad”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎, Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 121
* Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “bad”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 52
* Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “bad”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 30
* 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “bad”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 264

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

Probably borrowed from Pictish [Term?]. Compare Breton bod (“cluster, bunch of grapes, thicket”).

### Noun

bad m (genitive singular baid, plural badan)
* place, spot
* tuft, bunch
* flock, group
* thicket, clump (of trees)

#### Synonyms

* (place): spot

#### Derived terms

* anns a' bhad
* reul-bhad

## Somali
### Noun

bad ?
* sea

## Sumerian
### Romanization

bad
* Romanization of 𒁁 (bad)

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish badh, from Old Norse bað, from Proto-Germanic *baþą, from the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑːd/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːd

### Noun

bad n
* bathing
    Synonym: badande
* a bath (instance of bathing)
    ta (sig) ett badtake [oneself] a bath
* a bath (place suitable for bathing, like a badplats or badhus)
    Det nya badet öppnar på onsdagThe new bathhouse [for example] opens on Wednesday
* a bath (liquid for bathing in)
    tappa upp ett varmt baddraw/run a hot bath

#### Derived terms

* badbyxor
* badhus
* badkar
* badlakan
* badplats
* badrum
* badshorts
* havsbad
* kallbad
* karbad
* varmbad
* vinterbad
* ångbad

#### Related terms

* bada

### Verb

bad
* past indicative of be
* past indicative of bedja

### References

* bad in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bad in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Volapük
### Noun

bad (nominative plural bads)
* evil, badness

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### See also

* badik
* badiko

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːd/
* Rhymes: -aːd

### Etymology 1

From Old English bāt.

#### Noun

bad m (plural badau)
* boat
    Synonyms: cwch, llong

##### Derived terms

* agerfad m (“steamboat”)
* bad achub m (“lifeboat”)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *batos (“death, pestilence”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷh₂-tó-s, from *gʷeh₂- (“to step, go”), with semantic shift "to go" > "to pass away" > "death".

#### Noun

bad f (uncountable)
* plague, pestilence
    Synonyms: pla, haint

##### Derived terms

* y fad fawr (“the Great Plague”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.