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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یخشی (yaḫşı), ultimately a derivation from Proto-Turkic *yak- (“good”), whence Turkish yakış- (“to look good”). Doublet of yakışık.
Cognate with Turkmen ýagşy, Crimean Tatar yahşı, Tatar яхшы (yaxşı), Kyrgyz жакшы (jakşı), Kazakh жақсы (jaqsy), Uzbek yaxshi, Uyghur ياخشى (yaxshi), Azerbaijani yaxşı.
Adjective
yahşi
- (dialectal, colloquial) beautiful, good, nice
- Synonyms: güzel, iyi
Further reading
- “yahşi”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu