سرخوش

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• (rare) سارخوش (sarhoş)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سرخوش (sarxoš, “drunk”), a compound of سر (sar, “head”) + خوش (xoš, “happy”).

Adjective

سرخوش • (sarhoş)

1. drunk, inebriated, intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption

   Synonyms: سكران (sekran), گچكین (geçkin), مخمور (mahmur), مست (mest)

2. happy, delighted, blissful, joyous, cheerful, merry, enjoying good of any kind

Derived terms

• سرخوش اولمق (sarhoş olmak, “to get drunk”)
• سرخوشلق (sarhoşluk, “drunkenness”)
• سرخوشی (sarhoşi, “drunkenness”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sarhoş
• → Albanian: sarhosh

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sarhoş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4073
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سرخوش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 267
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سرخوش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 673
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ebrius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 442
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سرخوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2589
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sarhoş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرخوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1051

Persian

Etymology

سر (sar, “head”) +‎ خوش (xoš, “happy”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [saɾ.xʷaʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.xʊʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.xʊʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säɾ.xʊʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säɾ.xuʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæɹ.xoʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.χuʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	sarxwaš
Dari reading?	sarxuš
Iranian reading?	sarxoš
Tajik reading?	sarxuš

Adjective

سرخوش • (sarxoš) (comparative سرخوش‌تَر (sarxoš-tar), superlative سرخوش‌تَرین (sarxoš-tarin))

1. happy
2. tipsy, drunk

Synonyms

• (happy): خوشحال (xošhâl), شادمان (šâdmân)
• (drunk): مست (mast), شنگول (šangul)

Descendants

• → Armenian: սարխոշ (sarxoš)
• → Azerbaijani: sərxoş
• → Ottoman Turkish: سرخوش (sarhoş), (rare) سارخوش (sarhoş)
  • Turkish: sarhoş
  • → Albanian: sarhosh