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منحوس

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Arabic

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Root
ن ح س (n ḥ s)
4 terms

Etymology

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Derived from the passive participle of the verb نَحَسَ (naḥasa).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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مَنْحُوس (manḥūs) (masculine plural مَنْحُوسُونَ (manḥūsūna) or مَنَاحِيس (manāḥīs))

  1. disastrous, fateful, evil, inauspicious, unfortunate, unlucky, ill-omened

Declension

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Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • Italian: Mancuso
  • Urdu: منحوس (manhūs)
  • Hindi: मनहूस (manhūs)
  • Ottoman Turkish: منحوس (menhûs)

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian مَنْحُوس (manhūs), from Arabic مَنْحُوس (manḥūs).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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مَنْحُوس (manhūs) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मनहूस)

  1. ill-omened
  2. unfortunate, unlucky
  3. inauspicious
  4. damned
  5. (vulgar) dismal, wretched

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • منحوس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • منحوس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “منحوس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “منحوس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “منحوس”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1121
  • John Shakespear (1834) “منحوس”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC