मनहूस

Hindi

Etymology

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

Adjective

मनहूस • (manhūs) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling منحوس)

1. unfortunate, unlucky, ill-omened, inauspicious
2. wretched (of a person or object)
3. grim, forbidding, ominous (of atmosphere, or aspect)

Derived terms

• मनहूसियत (manhūsiyat)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मनहूस”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press