kanaat

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish قناعت (contentment), from Arabic قَنَاعَة (qanāʕa). The sense meaning opinion arose in early modern Turkish.

Noun

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kanaat (definite accusative kanaati, plural kanaatler)

  1. opinion; conviction
    • 1936 April 30, “Son Telgraflar”, in Ulusal Birlik, page 4:
      Herkes, İspanyanın Bolşevikliğe doğru gittiği kanaatini beslemektedir.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. satisfaction, contentment

References

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  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kanaat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قناعت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1474
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 592