yaxşı

Azerbaijani

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Cyrillic јахшы
Abjad یاخشی

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یخشی (yaḫşı), from Proto-Common Turkic *yakšï, derivation of Proto-Turkic *yak- (to draw near; to fit, to be well-suited).

Cognate with Turkmen ýagşy, Salar yaqşi, Crimean Tatar yahşı, Tatar яхшы (yaxşı), Kyrgyz жакшы (jakşı), Southern Altai јакшы (ǰakšï), Kazakh жақсы (jaqsy), Uzbek yaxshi, Uyghur ياخشى (yaxshi), dialectal Turkish yakşı.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jɑχˈʃɯ], [ˈjɑχʃɯ̥]
  • IPA(key): [jɑχˈt͡ʃɯ], [jɑχˈt͡sɯ] (as if spelled yaxçı)
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  • Hyphenation: yax‧şı

Adjective

yaxşı (comparative daha yaxşı, superlative ən yaxşı)

  1. good (suitable)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:yaxşı
    Antonyms: see Thesaurus:yaxşı
    O yaxşı oğlandır.He's a good guy.
    Hansı ixtisas daha yaxşıdır?Which profession is the better one?

Derived terms

Adverb

yaxşı

  1. well
    Gözəl səsi olan müğənni yaxşı oxuyur.
    The singer that has a beautiful voice sings well.
    Yaxşı fikirləşdin?
    Have you thought this through?
    (literally, “Have you thought well?”)

Derived terms

  • yaxşıca (pretty, nice, adjective)
  • yaxşıca (thoroughly, properly, adverb)
  • yaxşılaşdırmaq (to improve) (transitive)
  • yaxşılaşmaq (to improve) (intransitive)
  • yaxşılıq (good, goodness, kindness, favor, noun)
  • yaxşıraq (better, adverb) (outdated)

Interjection

yaxşı

  1. all right, OK;
    Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
    Synonyms: oldu, bəli, həri, , əlbəttə
    — Onda sabah bir yerdə gedək.
    Yaxşı.
    "Then let's go together tomorrow." "OK".
  2. all right, OK;
    Used to acknowledge a statement or situation
    .
    Yaxşı, pulum nə oldu?All right, what about my money?
  3. come on, stop it, enough[nt. 1]
    Yaxşı da, zarafat edirik. Uşaq olma.Come on, we're just joking. Don't be such a child.
  4. (sarcastic) yeah right, get off with you! often followed by da to denote a disbelief in what one says.
    — Dünən müdür məni yanına çağırdı, dedi sən bizim ən yaxşı işçimizsən, maaşıvı artırırıq!
    Yaxşı da!
    "Yesterday, boss asked me to come by and told me, 'You are our best worker, we're going to raise your salary!'"
    "Yeah right"!

Usage notes

  1. ^ Colloquially, this can take on the verbal plural imperative ending -rın, as in Yaxşırın, qurtarın!, "Stop it, enough! (pl.)". Compare bəsdir.

Descendants

  • Armenian: յախշի (yaxši)

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