मनहूस

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَنْحُوس (manhūs), from Arabic مَنْحُوس (manḥūs).

मनहूस • (manhūs) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling منحوس)

1. unfortunate, unlucky, ill-omened, inauspicious
2. wretched (of a person or object)

   अरे, ये मनहूस मच्छर मुझे हर जगह काट रहे हैं।

   are, ye manhūs macchar mujhe har jagah kāṭ rahe ha͠i.

   These wretched mosquitoes are biting me everywhere.

3. grim, forbidding, ominous (of atmosphere, or aspect)

• मनहूसियत (manhūsiyat)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मनहूस”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press