بد بو

Urdu

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Classical Persian بَد بو (bad-bū, “stink, stench”).

Pronunciation

Noun

بد بو • (bad-bū) ?

  1. stink, stench; bad-smell, bad-odor
    تمہاری بغلوں سے بدبو آ رہی ہے
    tumhārī baġalõ se bad-bū ā rhī he!
    there is a stench coming off your armpits!
    اپنے بستر کی چادروں سے بدبو صاف کریں۔
    apnī bistar kī cādarõ se bad-bū sāf karẽ
    clean the stench off your bedsheets!

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References
  • “بو بد بو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بو&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact بد بو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “بد بو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • “بو بد بو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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