بختسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بخت (baht, “luck, fortune”) +‎ ـسز (-sız, -suz, “-less”).

Adjective

بختسز • (bahtsız)

  1. unlucky, unfortunate, inauspicious, hapless, marked by or bringing ill luck
    Synonyms: اوغورسز (uğursuz), قوتسز (kutsuz)

Noun

بختسز • (bahtsız)

  1. unfortunate, an unlucky person, one who has fallen into bad circumstances
    Synonym: قوتسز (kutsuz)

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Turkish: bahtsız
  • → Albanian: baksuz
  • → Aromanian: bacsúz
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Latin script: bàksuz
    Cyrillic script: ба̀ксуз

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bahtsız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 439
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بختسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 255
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) chapter 133., in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 83
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بختسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 344
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