kanat

See also: Kanat, känät, and káňat

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑːt

Etymology 1

Noun

kanat (plural kanats)

  1. Alternative spelling of qanat.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindustani क़नात (qanāt, wall of tent; canvas screen).

  1. A canvas screen or partition forming the wall or division of a tent or other enclosure.
    • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Second-rate Woman”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 116:
      "There was an arrangement of loose-boxes in kanats, and she was in the next one talking to him."

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قناد (kanat, wing; wing, leaf (of a door, window), shutter).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈnat/
  • Rhymes: -at

Noun

kanat m (plural kanate)

  1. shutter

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kanat”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 245

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2], 1980

Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From kan +‎ -at.

Pronunciation

Noun

kanat m (plural kanats)

  1. khanate

Further reading

Finnish

Noun

kanat

  1. nominative plural of kana

Anagrams

French

Noun

kanat m (plural kanats)

  1. khanate[1]

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

kanat n (definite singular kanatet, indefinite plural kanat or kanater, definite plural kanata or kanatene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by khanat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

kanat n (definite singular kanatet, indefinite plural kanat, definite plural kanata)

  1. (pre-2005) alternative form of khanat

Swedish

Verb

kanat

  1. supine of kana

Anagrams

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قناد (kanad, wing), from Proto-Turkic *kānat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈnat/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ka‧nat

Noun

kanat (definite accusative kanadı, plural kanatlar)

  1. wing (part of an animal)
    Synonym: (archaic) cenah
    kuş kanadıa bird's wing
    böcek kanadıa bug's wing
  2. wing (part of an airplane)
    kanat kirişiwing spar
  3. (politics) wing
    Synonym: cenah
  4. (sports) wing
  5. (of a fish) fin
    Synonym: yüzgeç
  6. doorleaf, valve
    kapı kanadıdoorleaf
  7. vane, blade
    pervane kanadıpropeller blade
  8. side
    Synonyms: yan, taraf
  9. (Diyarbakır) page
    Synonym: sayfa
  10. (İstanbul) processed leather
    Synonyms: gön, kösele

Declension

Declension of kanat
singular plural
nominative kanat kanatlar
definite accusative kanatı kanatları
dative kanata kanatlara
locative kanatta kanatlarda
ablative kanattan kanatlardan
genitive kanatın kanatların

Derived terms

Further reading

  • kanat”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “kanat”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kanat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Eren, Hasan (1999) “kanat”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎[3] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi
  • kanat”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982