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badw بدْو 
ID 062 • Sw – • BP??? • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last updated 4Oct2022
√BDW 
n. 
1 desert; 2a nomads; b Bedouins – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ From WSem *√BDW ‘to be(come) desolate, desert’; n. *badw‑ ‘desert’ – Huehnergard2011. 
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BDW/Y, 1 Ar badā ‘s’en aller dans le désert, mener une vie nomade’, badw ‘vie bédouine’, bādiyaẗ ‘steppe, plaine semi-désertique’; Gz badwa ‘être désolé, inculte’, badw ‘désert’; Amh bäda, Te bädu, badob, Tña bado ‘désert, brousse’. -2-4 […]
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Bedouin, from Ar badawiyyīn ‘Bedouins’, pl. of badawī ‘nomadic, Bedouin’, from badw ‘desert, nomads, Bedouins’. 
► tabaddà, vb. V, 1 ↗badā; 2 to live in the desert: tD-stem, denom.
► tabādà, vb. VI, to pose as a Bedouin: tL-stem, denom., imitative

► BP#3441badawī, adj., 1 Bedouin, nomadic; 2 rural (as distinguished from urban); 3 a Bedouin: nsb-formation
► badawiyyaẗ, pl. -āt, n.f., Bedouin woman, Bedouin girl: f. of badawī
► badāwaẗ, var. bidāwaẗ, n.f., 1 desert life, Bedouin life; 2 Bedouinism, nomadism
► baydāʔᵘ, n.f., desert, steppe, wilderness, wild
► bādⁱⁿ, det. al-bādī, 1 ↗badā; 2 adj., inhabiting the desert; 3 n., pl. budāẗ, Bedouins
► BP#4322bādiyaẗ, n.f., 1 desert, semidesert, steppe; 2 peasantry; 3 pl. bawādⁱⁿ, det. bawādī, nomads, Bedouins

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗badā and ↗badāẗ, as well as, for the whole picture, root entry ↗√BDW. 
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