kismet

See also: kısmet

English

WOTD – 23 November 2007

Alternative forms

• kismat

Etymology

From the Turkish kısmet, from Arabic قِسْمَة (qismä).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪz.mɛt/, /ˈkɪs.mɛt/

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Noun

kismet (usually uncountable, plural kismets)

1. Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.

Synonyms

• (fate): destiny, fate, fortune, lot

Translations

fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny

• Arabic: قِسْمَة f (qísma)
• Armenian: (good fate) ղսմաթ (łsmatʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 命運 (zh), 命运 (zh) (mìngyùn)

• Czech: osud (cs) m
• Dutch: lotbestemming
• Finnish: kohtalo (fi)
• Georgian: ყისმათი (ka) (qismat’i), ბედი (bedi), იღბალი (iḡbali), ბედისწერა (bediscera)
• Hindi: क़िस्मत (qismat)
• Hungarian: kiszmet
• Icelandic: örlög (is) n, sköp (is) n
• Indonesian: nasib (id), takdir (id)

• Macedonian: касмет m (k'smet), судбина f (sùdbina)
• Persian: تقدیر (fa) (taqdir), قسمت (fa) (qesmat)
• Polish: los (pl) m, przeznaczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: fado (pt) m, destino (pt) m
• Russian: кисмет (ru) m (kismét), судьба (ru) f (sud’bá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кисмет m, крсмет m, судбина f, удес m

  Roman: kismet m, krsmet m, sudbina f, udes m

• Sindhi: ڀاڳ m
• Turkish: kısmet (tr)
• Urdu: قسمت (qismat)
• Uzbek: qismat

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• kr̀smet

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قسمت (kısmet), from Arabic قسمة (qisma).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kìsmet m (Cyrillic spelling кѝсмет)

1. kismet
2. fate

Declension

    declension of kismet

	singular	plural
nominative	kismet	kismeti
genitive	kismeta	kismeta
dative	kismetu	kismetima
accusative	kismet	kismete
vocative	kismete	kismeti
locative	kismetom	kismetima
instrumental	kismetu	kismetima

Synonyms

• sudbina
• udes
• usud