قوت

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See also: فوت and قوة

Arabic

Root
ق و ت (q w t)
1 term

Pronunciation

Noun

قُوت • (qūt) m (plural أَقْوَات (ʔaqwāt))

  1. food

Declension

Declension of noun قُوت (qūt)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قُوت
qūt 		الْقُوت
al-qūt 		قُوت
qūt
Nominative قُوتٌ
qūtun 		الْقُوتُ
al-qūtu 		قُوتُ
qūtu
Accusative قُوتًا
qūtan 		الْقُوتَ
al-qūta 		قُوتَ
qūta
Genitive قُوتٍ
qūtin 		الْقُوتِ
al-qūti 		قُوتِ
qūti
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قُوتَيْن
qūtayn 		الْقُوتَيْن
al-qūtayn 		قُوتَيْ
qūtay
Nominative قُوتَانِ
qūtāni 		الْقُوتَانِ
al-qūtāni 		قُوتَا
qūtā
Accusative قُوتَيْنِ
qūtayni 		الْقُوتَيْنِ
al-qūtayni 		قُوتَيْ
qūtay
Genitive قُوتَيْنِ
qūtayni 		الْقُوتَيْنِ
al-qūtayni 		قُوتَيْ
qūtay
Plural basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal أَقْوَات
ʔaqwāt 		الْأَقْوَات
al-ʔaqwāt 		أَقْوَات
ʔaqwāt
Nominative أَقْوَاتٌ
ʔaqwātun 		الْأَقْوَاتُ
al-ʔaqwātu 		أَقْوَاتُ
ʔaqwātu
Accusative أَقْوَاتًا
ʔaqwātan 		الْأَقْوَاتَ
al-ʔaqwāta 		أَقْوَاتَ
ʔaqwāta
Genitive أَقْوَاتٍ
ʔaqwātin 		الْأَقْوَاتِ
al-ʔaqwāti 		أَقْوَاتِ
ʔaqwāti

Descendants

  • → Ottoman Turkish: قوت (kut)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: क़ूत (qūt)
    Urdu: قوت (qūt)

References

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kut (“luck, good fortune”);[1] cognate with Old Turkic 𐰸𐰆𐱃 (q̊¹ut¹), Bashkir ҡот (qot), Chuvash хӑт (hăt), Kazakh құт (qūt), Karakhanid قُتْ (qut), Kyrgyz кут (kut), Tatar qot, Tuvan кут (kut), Uzbek қут (qut) and Yakut кут (kut).

Noun

قوت • (kut)

  1. luck, fortune, something favorable that happens to someone by chance
    Synonyms: اوغور (uğur), بخت (baht), حظ (hazz), طالع (taliʼ)
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kut”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic قُوت (qūt, “food”).

Noun

قوت • (kut) (definite accusative قوتی (kutı), plural اقوات (akvat))

  1. food, aliment, any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating
    Synonyms: مانجه (manca), یی (yeyi), ییه‌جك (yeyecek)
Descendants

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Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa, “power, strength”).

Alternative forms

Noun

قوت • (kuvvet) (definite accusative قوتی (kuvveti), plural قوی (kuva) or قوتلر (kuvvetler))

  1. might, power, vigour, the strength or force held by a person or group
    Synonyms: زور (zor), طاقت (takat), قدرت (kudret), گوچ (güç), مكنت (miknet)
    • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎, page 500:
      بزم ، جهان نظرنده اك بویوك قوت و قدرتمز ، یكی شكل و ماهیتمزدر.
      Bi­zim, cihan nazarında en büyük kuvvet ve kudretimiz, yeñi şekil ve mahiyetimizdir.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Descendants

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Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? quwwat
Dari reading? quwwat
Iranian reading? ğovvat
Tajik reading? quvvat

Noun

Dari قوت
Iranian Persian
Tajik қувват

قوت • (qovvat)

  1. strength, power, vigor, force
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic قُوت (qūt).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? qūt
Dari reading? qūt
Iranian reading? ğut
Tajik reading? qut

Noun

قوت • (qut)

  1. (literary) sustenance

Further reading

  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قوت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قُوَّت (quwwat), from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

Noun

قُوَّت • (quvvat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਕੁੱਵਤ)

  1. strength

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “قُوّت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قوت (quwwat), from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

Noun

قُوَتَ • (transliteration needed) ?

  1. strength

Further reading

  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “قُوَتَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • “قوت”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian قُوت (qūt), from Arabic قُوت (qūt).

Pronunciation

Noun

قُوت • (qūt) ? (Hindi spelling क़ूत)

  1. food

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian قوت (quwwat), from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

Pronunciation

Noun

قُوَّت • (quvvat) f (Hindi spelling क़ुव्वत)

  1. strength, power, force

References

  • Platts, John T. (1884) “قوت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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