بختسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بخت (baht, “luck, fortune”) +‎ ـسز (-sız, -suz, “-less”).

Adjective

بختسز • (bahtsız)

1. unlucky, unfortunate, inauspicious, hapless, marked by or bringing ill luck

   Synonyms: اوغورسز (uğursuz), قوتسز (kutsuz)

Noun

بختسز • (bahtsız)

1. unfortunate, an unlucky person, one who has fallen into bad circumstances

   Synonym: قوتسز (kutsuz)

Derived terms

• بختسزلق (bahtsızlık, “misfortune”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bahtsız
• → Albanian: baksuz
• → Aromanian: bacsúz
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: bàksuz

  Cyrillic script: ба̀ксуз

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bahtsız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 439
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بختسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 255
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “133.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 83
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بختسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 344