menkûs

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish منكوس (menkus), from Arabic مَنْكُوس (mankūs), passive participle of نَكَسَ (nakasa, “to turn upside down”).

Adjective

menkûs (obsolete)

  1. upside-down; backwards
  2. 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
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