कमबख़्त

• कम्बख़्त (kambaxt), कम-बख़्त (kam-baxt), कमबख्त (kambakht)

Borrowed from Classical Persian کم‌بخت (kam-baxt). By surface analysis, कम- (kam-) +‎ बख़्त (baxt). Compare Punjabi ਕੰਬਖ਼ਤ (kambxat) / کَمبَخت (kambaxt), Gujarati કમબખ્ત (kambakht).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kəm.bəxt̪/, [kɐ̃m.bɐxt̪], /kəm.bəkʰt̪/, [kɐ̃m.bɐkʰt̪]

कमबख़्त • (kambaxt) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling کمبخت)

1. unfortunate, unlucky, miserable

   Synonyms: भाग्यहीन (bhāgyahīn), अभागा (abhāgā), निभागा (nibhāgā), बदक़िस्मत (badqismat), बदनसीब (badansīb)

2. cursed, damned, wretched

   Synonym: निगोड़ा (nigoṛā)

   Near-synonyms: मनहूस (manhūs), बदबख़्त (badbaxt)

   किधर से चूना यह कमबख़्त जुमला?

   kidhar se cūnā yah kambaxt jumlā?

   From where did you pick up this wretched sentence?

• कमबख़्ती (kambaxtī)

कमबख़्त • (kambaxt) m or f by sense (Urdu spelling کمبخت)

1. an unfortunate person

   Synonyms: भाग्यहीन (bhāgyahīn), अभागा (abhāgā), निभागा (nibhāgā), बदक़िस्मत (badqismat), बदनसीब (badansīb)

2. a wretched person or object

   कौन कमबख़्त कुर्ते के साथ धोती पहनता है?

   kaun kambaxt kurte ke sāth dhotī pahantā hai?

   Who the hell wears a dhoti with a kurta?

   (literally, “What wretched person wears a dhoti with a kurta?”)

   लोड नहीं हो रहा कमबख़्त।

   loḍ nahī̃ ho rahā kambaxt.

   The damn thing isn't loading.

NOTE: This term is declined masculine or feminine according to the gender of the referent.

• बख़्त (baxt, “luck, fortune”)
• बख़्तावर (baxtāvar, “lucky, prosperous”)
• ख़ुशबख़्त (xuśbaxt, “lucky, fortunate”)
• बदबख़्त (badbaxt, “unlucky, cursed, inauspicious”)
• सिकंदरबख़्त (sikandarbaxt, “prosperous”)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “कमबख्त”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha