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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian مایخوش (mâyxoš, “sweet-and-sour”), a compound of مایه (mâye, “stuff”) + خوش (xoš, “pleasant”).
Adjective
مایخوش • (mayhoş)
- acidulous, sourish, subacid, slightly sour or tart
- Synonym: اكشیجه (ekşice)
- sweet-and-sour, having both sweet and sour taste
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mayhoş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3087
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “مایخوش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 416b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مایخوش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1097
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Subacidus”, 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, Vienna, column 1610
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مایخوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4260
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mayhoş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مایخوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1665