ناخوش

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ناخوش (nâxoš), compound of prefix ناـ (nâ-, “not”) and خوش (xoš, “pleasant”).

Adjective

ناخوش • (nahoş)

1. disagreeable, displeasing, unpleasant, repulsive

   Synonyms: طاتسز (tatsız), لذتسز (lezzetsiz)

Derived terms

• ناخوشلق (nahoşluk, “unpleasantness”)
• ناخوشگوار (nahoşguvar, “indigestible”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: nahoş

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nahoş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3478
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ناخوش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1259
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pravus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1355
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ناخوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 5089-5090
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nahoş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ناخوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2063