قوت
Arabic
| Root |
|---|
| ق و ت (q w t) |
| 1 term |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /quːt/
- Rhymes: -uːt
Noun
قُوت • (qūt) m (plural أَقْوَات (ʔaqwāt))
Declension
| 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
- → Persian: قوت (qut)
- → Ottoman Turkish: قوت (kut)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: क़ूत (qūt)
- Urdu: قوت (qūt)
- → Northern Kurdish: qût
(via plural form أَقْوَات (ʔaqwāt)):
- → Uzbek: ovqat
- → Kazakh: ауқат (auqat)
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قوت”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[2], London: W.H. Allen
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)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Turkish: kut
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kut”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kut2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2865
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 976
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kut”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1480
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic قُوت (qūt, “food”).
Noun
قوت • (kut) (definite accusative قوتی (kutı), plural اقوات (akvat))
- food, aliment, any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating
- Synonyms: مانجه (manca), یی (yeyi), ییهجك (yeyecek)
Descendants
- Turkish: kut
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kut4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2865
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[5], Vienna: F. Beck, page 371b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[6] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 976
- Mallouf, Nassif (1867) “قوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 1029
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Alimentum”, 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[7], Vienna, column 48
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[8], Vienna, column 3779
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1480
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa, “power, strength”).
Alternative forms
- قوه (kuvva)
Noun
قوت • (kuvvet) (definite accusative قوتی (kuvveti), plural قوی (kuva) or قوتلر (kuvvetler))
- might, power, vigour, the strength or force held by a person or group
- 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk[10], 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
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuvvet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2872
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[11], Vienna: F. Beck, page 371b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[12] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 976
- 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[13], Vienna, column 1327
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[14], Vienna, columns 3779-3780
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuvvet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[15], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1480
Persian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /quw.ˈwat/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [qʊw.wǽt̪]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [qov.vǽt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [quw.vǽt̪]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | quwwat |
| Dari reading? | quwwat |
| Iranian reading? | ġovvat |
| Tajik reading? | quvvat |
Noun
| Dari | قوت |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | қувват |
قوت • (qovvat)
- strength, power, vigor, force
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 425:
- تا کسی ندهد به کودک هیچ چیز
قوت پیران از این بیش است نیز- tā kasē na-dihad ba kōdak hēč čīz
quwwat-i pīrān az īn bēš ast nīz - So that no one should give the boy anything:
the power of the Pírs is even greater than this.
- tā kasē na-dihad ba kōdak hēč čīz
Derived terms
- قوت داشتن (qovvat dâštan)
- قوت گرفتن (qovvat gereftan)
- قوتو (qovvatu)
Descendants
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic قُوت (qūt).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ˈquːt/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [quːt̪]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [quːt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [qut̪]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | qūt |
| Dari reading? | qūt |
| Iranian reading? | ġut |
| Tajik reading? | qut |
Noun
قوت • (qut)
- (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)
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) ?
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
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /quːt̪/
Noun
قُوت • (qūt) ? (Hindi spelling क़ूत)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Classical Persian قوت (quwwat), from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qʊʋ.ʋət̪/
Noun
قُوَّت • (quvvat) f (Hindi spelling क़ुव्वत)
References
- Platts, John T. (1884) “قوت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.