kıt

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Turkish

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Etymology

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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

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kıt

  1. insufficient, not enough
  2. scarce, deficient

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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

References

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  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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