मनहूस
Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مَنْحُوس (manhūs), from Arabic مَنْحُوس (manḥūs).
Adjective
मनहूस • (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
- मनहूसियत (manhūsiyat)
References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मनहूस”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
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