مایخوش

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• میخوش (meyhoş)
• մայխօշ (mayhoş), մայհօշ (mayhoş), մէյխօշ (meyhoş), մայիխօշ (mayihoş) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian مایخوش (mâyxoš, “sweet-and-sour”), a compound of مایه (mâye, “stuff”) +‎ خوش (xoš, “pleasant”).

Adjective

مایخوش • (mayhoş)

1. acidulous, sourish, subacid, slightly sour or tart

   Synonym: اكشیجه (ekşice)

2. sweet-and-sour, having both sweet and sour taste

Derived terms

• مایخوشلق (mayhoşluk, “acidulousness”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mayhoş
• → Armenian: մայհօշ (mayhōš), մայխօշ (mayxōš), մարխոշ (marxoš), մէյխօշ (mēyxōš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mayhoş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3087
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “مایخوش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 416b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مایخوش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1097
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Subacidus”, 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 1610
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مایخوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4260
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mayhoş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مایخوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1665