Emotion and Mind
بدبختی
/ badbakhti /
noun · misfortune
Meaning
معنی۱
Iranian fatalism gives بدبختی its weight. The belief that بخت (bakht) is dealt at birth means a wretched life is not a personal failing, it is a hand you were given. This produces both resignation and a particular kind of solidarity: when one Iranian tells another چه بدبختی, they are agreeing that the universe was unfair, not lecturing the sufferer about life choices.
In a sentence
مثالبدبخت شدم
bad-bakht shodam
I have become wretched
بدبختی پشت بدبختی
bad-bakhti posht-e bad-bakhti
misfortune after misfortune
چه بدبختی!
che bad-bakhti!
what wretchedness!
بدبختیهای زندگی
bad-bakhti-hâ-ye zendegi
the miseries of life
بیچاره و بدبخت
bichâre-vo bad-bakht
poor and wretched
دارم از بدبختی میمیرم
dâram az bad-bakhti mimiram
I'm dying of wretchedness
The company it keeps
همنشینهاYou rarely meet a word alone — here it is, at work beside others.
خوشبختی
khosh-bakhti
happiness, good fortune
بیچاره
bichâre
poor thing, helpless one
سیاهبختی
siyâh-bakhti
black fate
فلاکت
felâkat
misery, destitution
گرفتاری
gereftâri
trouble, being stuck
In its constellation
در پیوندNo word stands alone. Follow a thread to the words it lives beside — hover to read one, click to open it.
بدبختیbadbakhti
keeps company with ۶ words