قانت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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Adjective

قانت • (kanit)

1. pious, devout, righteous, obedient to God
2. silent, as to praying for earthly good

Descendants

• Turkish: kanit

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kanit”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2387
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قانت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 937
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Obediens”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1166
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قانت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3599
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1426