kötü

Meaning

Adj

bad, evil

Noun

villain, knave, rogue

Hyphenated as

kö‧tü

Pronounced as (IPA)

/cø̞.tʏ/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

Fakat bunların yanında kötü haberler de var .

However, there is bad news as well.

İyi gün de , kötü gün de düş gibi geçip gidiyor.

Both the good day and the bad day pass like a dream.

Gene öyle kötü kötü sırıttı.

He grinned so badly again.

Milli takımın kötü taraftarı yok .

The national team does not have bad fans.

O'Rourke, “ Kötü şeyler bile eskisinden daha iyi” diye yazar .

“Even bad things are better than before,” O'Rourke writes.

Kötü haberse devlet finansmanı.

The bad news is the government funding.