kıt

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قیت (kıt, “scarce, few”), from Proto-Turkic *kït (“not enough, insufficient”).[1]

Cognate with Azerbaijani qıt (“scarce”), Turkmen gyt (“few, scarce”), etc.

Adjective

kıt

  1. insufficient, not enough
  2. scarce, deficient

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • aklı kıt
  • kıtlık

Further reading

  • “kıt”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

References

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