kismet

See also: Kismet and kısmet

English

WOTD – 23 November 2007

Alternative forms

• kismat

Etymology

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

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.
   • 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.

   • 2016, Derek James, "How I learned to appreciate Tim Duncan", Hardwood Paroxysm:

     "Whether it was kismet, luck, or Divine Intervention, we don't know."

Synonyms

• (fate): destiny, fate, fortune, lot

Translations

fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny

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

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

• Czech: osud (cs) m
• Dutch: lotbestemming
• Finnish: kohtalo (fi)
• Georgian: ყისმათი (ka) (q̇ismati), ბედი (bedi), იღბალი (iɣbali), ბედისწერა (bedisc̣era)
• Hindi: क़िस्मत (qismat)
• Hungarian: kiszmet
• Icelandic: örlög (is) n, sköp (is) n
• Ido: kismet (io)
• Indonesian: nasib (id), takdir (id)
• Macedonian: касмет m (k'smet), су̀дбина f (sùdbina)

• Persian: تقدیر‎ (fa) (taqdir), قسمت‎ (fa) (qesmat)
• Polish: los (pl) m, przeznaczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: fado (pt) m, destino (pt) m
• Russian: кисме́т (ru) m (kismét), судьба́ (ru) f (sudʹbá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

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

  Roman: kismet (sh) m, krsmet (sh) m, sudbina (sh) f, udes (sh) m

• Sindhi: ڀاڳ‎ m
• Slovak: kismet m
• Spanish: hado (es) m, destino (es) m, sino (es) m
• Turkish: kısmet (tr)
• Urdu: قسمت‎ (qismat)
• Uzbek: qismat (uz)

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• kr̀smet

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قسمت‎ (kısmet), from Arabic قِسْمَة‎ (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