मनहूस
Hindi
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Classical Persian مَنْحُوس (manhūs), from Arabic مَنْحُوس (manḥūs).
Adjective
editमनहूस • (manhūs) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling منحوس)
- unfortunate, unlucky, ill-omened, inauspicious
- wretched (of a person or object)
- grim, forbidding, ominous (of atmosphere, or aspect)
Derived terms
edit- मनहूसियत (manhūsiyat)
References
edit- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मनहूस”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press