[bar-bād], adj. lit. ‘on / to the wind’, ruined, destroyed, wasted, spoiled.
[←New Pers. bar-bād adj. ‘lit. “on or to the wind”; given to the wind, thrown or cast away, wasted’ <+②bar prep. & prefix. ‘on, upon, up, above; at’ (♣Eng. over (LRC),(AHD)) <bād ‘wind, air, breath’ ◄Middle Pers. wād ‘wind, air, breath’] ♣[Young Avestan vāta- m. ‘wind, god of wind’ ◄Old Avestan vāta- m. ‘wind’] ♣[OIA vātá- m. ʻwindʼ RV. <√vā ‘blow’]
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