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”).

Noun

kanat (plural kanats)

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

• Tanka, tanka

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قناد (kanat, “wing; wing, leaf (of a door, window), shutter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnat/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

kanat m (plural kanate)

1. shutter

Further reading

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

Catalan

Alternative forms

• khanat (superseded)

Etymology

From kan +‎ -at.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈnat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈnat]

Noun

kanat m (plural kanats)

1. khanate

Further reading

• “kanat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Finnish

Noun

kanat

1. nominative plural of kana

Anagrams

• ankat, kanta, katan, takan, tanka

French

Noun

kanat m (plural kanats)

1. khanate

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by khanat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

• kanta, tanka

Turkish

kanat

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnat/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ka‧nat

Noun

kanat (definite accusative kanadı, plural kanatlar)

1. wing (part of an animal)

   Synonym: (archaic) cenah

   kuş kanadı ― a bird's wing

   böcek kanadı ― a bug's wing

2. wing (part of an airplane)

   kanat kirişi ― wing spar

3. (politics) wing

   Synonym: cenah

4. (sports) wing
5. (of a fish) fin

   Synonym: yüzgeç

6. doorleaf, valve

   kapı kanadı ― doorleaf

7. vane, blade

   pervane kanadı ― propeller 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

• burun kanadı
• çakırkanat
• etkanat
• kanadı altında
• kanat açmak
• kanat çırpmak
• kanat germek
• kanatçık
• kanatlanmak
• kanatlı
• kanatsı
• kanatsız
• kızılkanat
• kol kanat olmak
• sarıkanat
• yelkenkanat

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