قوت

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See also: فوت and قوة

Arabic

Root
ق و ت (q-w-t)

Pronunciation

Noun

قُوت (qūtm (plural أَقْوَات (ʔaqwāt))

  1. food

Declension

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); 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

Further reading

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

Further reading

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), 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

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? quwwat
Dari reading? quwwat
Iranian reading? ğo-w-vat
Tajik reading? quvvat

Noun

Dari قوت
Iranian Persian
Tajik қувват

قوت (qovvat)

  1. strength
  2. power
  3. vigour
  4. force
  5. authority

Derived terms

Descendants

Punjabi

Etymology

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

Noun

قُوَّت (quvvatf (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 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 (quvvatf (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.