خوش

See also: خوس, جوش, and حوش

Arabic

Verb

خَوَّشَ (ḵawwaša) II, non-past يُخَوِّشُ‎ (yuḵawwišu)

  1. to countersink
  2. to ream

Conjugation

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Persian خوش (xoš).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χoːʃ/

Adjective

خوش (ḵōš)

  1. (with a following noun) good, nice, pleasant.
    اهي خوش زوجة.
    ihya ḵōš zōja
    She’s a good wife.

Usage notes

  • This is a prepositive adjective, and thus must come before the noun it modifies.

Interjection

خوش (ḵōš)

  1. nice, good, OK, alright, awesome.
    - بنروح المخيم باچر
    - خوش!
    - We wanna go camping tomorrow.
    - Awesome!

North Mesopotamian Arabic

Etymology

From Persian خوش (xoš).

Adjective

خوش (ḵōš) m or f

  1. (with a following noun) good; someone or something good
    هذي خوش سيارة
    haðiːḵōš səj.jɑː.rə
    This is a good car.

Usage notes

  • The sense is adjectival, but the construction is like that of a noun or pronoun.

Synonyms

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (xwš /xwaš/, pleasant, sweet, nice), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫟𐫇𐫢‎ (xwš‎ /xwaš/, pleasant, good), from Proto-Iranian. Cognate with Parthian 𐫇𐫟𐫢‎ (wxš‎ /wxaš/, pleasant, sweet), Northern Kurdish xweş, Zazaki weş, Gurani [script needed] (wäš), Baluchi وش (waš(š)) and possibly Khotanese khaṣṣa- (pleasant). Doublet of وش (vaš).

The reconstruction of the Proto-Iranian form and its further relations are uncertain. Perhaps Proto-Iranian *hwarša-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swarćša-, from Proto-Indo-European *swelḱs (taste (sweet)), and cognate with Jassic horz and Old Armenian քաղցր (kʿałcʿr).[1][2] An older proposal explains as Proto-Iranian *hw-aši-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsu-Hákši (provided with beautiful sight, beautiful to the eye, or with a kind eye, literally good-eye).[3][4][5]

Pronunciation

Adjective

Dari خوش
Iranian Persian
Tajik хуш (xuš)

خوش (xoš) (comparative خوش‌تَر (xoš-tar), superlative خوش‌تَرین (xoš-tarin))

  1. happy
  2. pleasant

Inflection

    Predicative forms of خوش (xoš)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)
خوشم
(xošam)
خوشیم
(xošim)
2nd person
(“you are”)
خوشی
(xoši)
خوشید
(xošid)
خوشین
(xošin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)
خوش است
(xoš ast)
خوشه
(xoše)
خوشند
(xošand)
خوشن
(xošan)
Colloquial.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: xoş
  • Gulf Arabic: خوش (ḵōš)
  • Bengali: খোশ (khōś)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: ख़ुश (xuś)
    Urdu: خوش (xuś)
  • Kazakh: хош (xoş), қош (qoş)
  • North Mesopotamian Arabic: خوش (ḵōš)
  • Punjabi: ਖੁਸ਼ (khuś), خُوش (xūś)
  • Saraiki: خُوش (xūś)
  • Turkish: hoş
  • Uyghur: خۇش (xush)

References

  1. Gert, Klingenschmitt (2000), “Mittelpersisch”, in Bernhard Forssman, Robert Plath, editors, Indoarisch, Iranisch und die Indogermanistik: Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 2. bis 5. Oktober 1997 in Erlangen (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert, page 204
  2. Korn, Agnes (2005) Towards a Historical Grammar of Balochi: Studies in Balochi Historical Phonology and Vocabulary (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 26), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 132
  3. Müller, Friedrich (1891), “Bemerkungen über awestische, pahlawi und neupersische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 5, page 352 of 348–356
  4. Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 113, page 508
  5. Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 415

Further reading

Saraiki

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خوش (xoš).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xoʃ/

Adjective

خوش (xoś) (Devanagari ख़ोश)

  1. happy

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خوش (xoš).

Pronunciation

Adjective

خوش (xuś) (Hindi spelling ख़ुश)

  1. happy
  2. content

Descendants

References

  • خوش”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • خوش”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

Uyghur

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xoʃ/, /xɔʃ/.

Interjection

خوش (xosh)

  1. goodbye
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