كنت
Arabic
Verb
كنت (form I)
- كُنْتُ (kuntu) /kun.tu/: first-person singular past active of كَانَ (kāna)
- كُنْتَ (kunta) /kun.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of كَانَ (kāna)
- كُنْتِ (kunti) /kun.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of كَانَ (kāna)
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- كند (kend)
Etymology
From older كند (kend), from Proto-Turkic *kend (“town”),[1] a root which ultimately derives from Sogdian 𐼸𐼰𐼻𐼹 (kʾnδ, “town, city”). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (kend, “city, settlement”).
Noun
كنت • (kent)
- village, a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town
- town, city, any large settlement with shops and a local government
Descendants
- Turkish: kent
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kend”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 728
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kent”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2550
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كند”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 397b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1043
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Villa”, 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[3], Vienna, column 1761
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كنت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4031
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kent”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1575