menkûs

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish منكوس (menkus), from Arabic مَنْكُوس (mankūs), passive participle of نَكَسَ (nakasa, “to turn upside down”).

Adjective

menkûs (obsolete)

1. upside-down; backwards
2. fallen over, overturned

References

• 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