منحوس

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Arabic

Root
ن ح س (n ḥ s)
4 terms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

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

Declension

Synonyms

Descendants

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

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

مَنْحُوس (manhūs) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मनहूस)

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

Derived terms

Further reading

  • منحوس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • منحوس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , 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