kismet

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See also: Kismet and kısmet

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish قسمت (kısmet, fate, destiny) (Turkish kısmet), from Arabic قِسْمَة (qisma, division, lot, destiny).

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kismet (usually uncountable, plural kismets)

  1. Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.
    Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot
    • 1887, Rudyard Kipling, Bitters Neat:
      But these things are kismet, and we only find out all about them just when any knowledge is too late.
    • 1917, Percival Christopher Wren, “The Rafters”, in The Young Stagers:
      "Golly!" he cried. "I'm awfully sorry, Bo'sun, but you're It. You're luck's clean out to-day. What rotten Kismet you do have. The Lot fell on you all right, smack in the middle of your chest."
    • 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter III, in The Camel's Back:
      But at this point fickle Kismet, who for a day had played with him bitterly and sardonically, decided to reward him in full for the amusement he had afforded her. Kismet turned the tawny eyes of the snake-charmer to the camel. Kismet led her to lean toward the man beside her and say, "Who's that? That camel?"
    • 2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Sexualised Catholicism, at the dawn of MTV, was Madonna’s first stroke of kismet.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قسمت (kismet), from Arabic قِسْمَة (qisma).

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  • IPA(key): /kǐsmet/
  • Hyphenation: kis‧met

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kìsmet m (Cyrillic spelling кѝсмет)

  1. kismet
  2. fate

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