yaxşı

Azerbaijani
Other scripts
Cyrillic јахшы
Abjad یاخشی

Etymology

From Common Turkic *yakšï, derivation of Proto-Turkic *yak- (“to draw near; to fit, to be well-suited”). Cognate with Turkmen ýagşy, Salar yaxşı, Crimean Tatar yahşı, Tatar яхшы (yaxşı), Kyrgyz жакшы (jakşı), Kazakh жақсы (jaqsy), Uzbek yaxshi, Uyghur ياخشى (yaxshi), dialectal Turkish yakşı.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [jɑχˈʃɯ], [ˈjɑχʃɯ̥]
  • IPA(key): [jɑχˈt͡ʃɯ], [jɑχˈt͡sɯ] (as if spelled yaxçı)
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  • Hyphenation: yax‧şı

Adjective

yaxşı (comparative daha yaxşı, superlative ən yaxşı)

  1. good (suitable)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:yaxşı
    Antonym: pis
    O yaxşı oğlandır. ― He's a good guy.
    Hansı ixtisas daha yaxşıdır? ― Which profession is the better one?

Derived terms

Adverb

yaxşı

  1. well
    Gözəl səsi olan müğənni yaxşı oxuyur.
    The singer that has a beautiful voice sings well.
    Yaxşı fikirləşdin?
    Have you thought this through?
    (literally, “Have you thought well?”)

Derived terms

Interjection

yaxşı

  1. all right, OK; Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
    Synonym: oldu
    -Onda sabah bir yerdə gedək. -Yaxşı.
    -Then let's go together tomorrow. -OK.
  2. all right, OK; Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
    Yaxşı, pulum nə oldu? ― All right, what about my money?
  3. come on, stop it, enough[nt. 1]
    Yaxşı da, zarafat edirik. Uşaq olma. ― Come on, we're just joking. Don't be such a child.
  4. (sarcastic) yeah right, get off with you! (disbelief) often followed by da
    -Dünən müdür məni yanına çağırdı, dedi sən bizim ən yaxşı işçimizsən, maaşıvı artırırıq!
    -Yaxşı!
    Yesterday, boss asked me to come by and told me, you are our best worker, we're going to raise your salary!
    -Yeah right!

Usage notes
  1. Colloquially, this can take on the verbal plural imperative ending -rın, as in Yaxşırın, qurtarın!, "Stop it, enough! (pl.)". Compare bəsdir.

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