menkûs
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish منكوس (menkus), from Arabic مَنْكُوس (mankūs), passive participle of نَكَسَ (nakasa, “to turn upside down”).
Adjective
editmenkûs (obsolete)
- upside-down; backwards
- fallen over, overturned
References
edit- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منكوس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1238
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN