ب د و

Arabic[edit]

ب د و • (b-d-w)

Form I: بَدَا (badā, “to appear, show; become evident, clear, plain, manifest; come to light; be obvious; seem good, acceptable, proper”)
- Verbal noun: بُدُوّ (buduww)
- Active participle: بَادٍ (bādin)
- Passive participle: مَبْدُوّ (mabduww)
Form III: بَادَى (bādā, “to show, evince, display, manifest, reveal, declare openly; demonstrate bring out, bring to light, make visible; express, utter, voice”)
- Verbal noun: مُبَادَاة (mubādāh), بِدَاء (bidāʔ)
- Active participle: مُبَادٍ (mubādin)
- Passive participle: مُبَادًى (mubādan)
Form V: تَبَدَّى (tabaddā, “to appear, show; become evident, clear, plain, manifest; come to light; be obvious; seem good, acceptable, proper”)
- Verbal noun: تَبَدٍّ (tabaddin)
- Active participle: مُتَبَدٍّ (mutabaddin)
- Passive participle: مُتَبَدًّى (mutabaddan)
Form VI: تَبَادَى (tabādā, “to pose as a Bedouin”)
- Verbal noun: تَبَادٍ (tabādin)
- Active participle: مُتَبَادٍ (mutabādin)
- Passive participle: مُتَبَادًى (mutabādan)

بَدْو (badw, “desert, nomads, Bedouins”)
بَدَوِي (badawī, “Bedouin, nomadic; rural (as opposed to urban); a Bedouin”)
بَدَوِية (badawiya, “Bedouin woman, Bedouin girl”); pl. بَدَوِيَات (badawiyāt)
بَدَاة (badāh, “whim, caprice; ill humour”); pl. بَدَوَات (badawāt)
بَدَاوة (badāwa, “desert life, Bedouin life; Bedouinism, nomadism”)
بِدَاوة (bidāwa, “desert life, Bedouin life; Bedouinism, nomadism”)
بَيْداء (baydāʔ, “desert, steppe, wilderness, wild”)
اِبْداء (ibdāʔ, “expression, manifestation, declaration”)
ابَادٍ (“apparent, evident, obvious, plain, visible; inhabiting the desert”); pl. بُدَاة (budāh)
بَادِية (bādiya, “desert, semidesert, steppe; peasantry”); pl. بَوَادٍ (bawādin, “nomads, Bedouins”)

Lane, Edward William (1863) “ب د و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate, page 171
Wehr, Hans (1979) “ب د و”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN