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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish منكوس (menkus), from Arabic مَنْكُوس (mankūs), passive participle of نَكَسَ (nakasa, “to turn upside down”).
Adjective
menkûs (obsolete)
- upside-down; backwards
- fallen over, overturned
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منكوس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1238
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN