kötü

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

bad, evil

Noun

villain, knave, rogue

Met koppelteken als

kö‧tü

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/cø̞.tʏ/

Etymologie (Engels)

From Ottoman Turkish كوتی (kötü).
Perhaps related to göt (“ass”). For the sense development, compare Arabic دُبْر (dubr, “buttocks->unfortunate”). Initial /k/ preserved unvoiced perhaps to distinguish the word from göt. However, the vowel of the last syllable of kötü cannot be explained morphologically which makes unlikely a derivation from göt (“ass”).
Dankoff puts under Armenian գոդի (godi) in his list of Turkish words whose Armenian etymology is speculative or not firmly established. To be compared to the Turkish dialectal form of Çanıllı kötü (“weak, thin, sickly”). For the sense development, compare with Persian پیس (“stained, wrinkled, leprous”) (archaic), whence Turkish has pis (“filthy”) and Azerbaijani pis (“bad, dirty”).

Zinnen

Bu gerçekten kötü .

Dit is echt slecht.

Gıda en kötü sorun olarak kaldı .

Voedsel bleef het ergste probleem.

Kötü bir niyetimiz yoktu.

We hadden geen slechte intentie.