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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مُكْنَة (mukna, “power, might”).
Noun
مكنت • (miknet)
- might, power, the strength or force held by a person or group
- Synonyms: زور (zor), قدرت (kudret), قوت (kuvvet), گوچ (güç)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “miknet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3218
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “miknet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 773
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مكنت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1217
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Potentia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1327
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مكنه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4869
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مكنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1959