beşbetər

Azerbaijani

Etymology

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

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

Adverb

beşbetər

  1. even worse [+ablative = than]

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

Further reading
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