жақсы

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic جاقسى
Cyrillic жақсы
Latin jaqsy

Etymology

From *yaqšï (“good”), from Proto-Turkic *yak- (“come near; suit, fit; appeal to somebody”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jaqšï, “good”), [script needed] (jaxšï, “good”); Tatar яхшы (yaxşı), Bashkir яҡшы (yaqşı), Kyrgyz жакшы (jakşı), Khakas чахсы (çaxsı), Uzbek yaxshi, Turkmen ýagşy, Azerbaijani yaxşı, Turkish yakşı (“good”) etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /(d)ʒaˈqsɯ/, [ʑæχˈsə]

Adjective

жақсы • (jaqsy)

  1. good

Antonyms

Derived terms

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.