قوت

See also: فوت and قوة

Arabic
Root
ق و ت (q-w-t)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /quːt/

Noun

قُوت • (qūt) m (plural أَقْوَات (ʔaqwāt))

  1. food

Declension
Declension of noun قُوت (qūt)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قُوت
qūt		 الْقُوت
al-qūt		 قُوت
qūt
Nominative قُوتٌ
qūtun		 الْقُوتُ
al-qūtu		 قُوتُ
qūtu
Accusative قُوتًا
qūtan		 الْقُوتَ
al-qūta		 قُوتَ
qūta
Genitive قُوتٍ
qūtin		 الْقُوتِ
al-qūti		 قُوتِ
qūti
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قُوتَيْن
qūtayn		 الْقُوتَيْن
al-qūtayn		 قُوتَيْ
qūtay
Nominative قُوتَانِ
qūtāni		 الْقُوتَانِ
al-qūtāni		 قُوتَا
qūtā
Accusative قُوتَيْنِ
qūtayni		 الْقُوتَيْنِ
al-qūtayni		 قُوتَيْ
qūtay
Genitive قُوتَيْنِ
qūtayni		 الْقُوتَيْنِ
al-qūtayni		 قُوتَيْ
qūtay
Plural basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal أَقْوَات
ʔaqwāt		 الْأَقْوَات
al-ʔaqwāt		 أَقْوَات
ʔaqwāt
Nominative أَقْوَاتٌ
ʔaqwātun		 الْأَقْوَاتُ
al-ʔaqwātu		 أَقْوَاتُ
ʔaqwātu
Accusative أَقْوَاتًا
ʔaqwātan		 الْأَقْوَاتَ
al-ʔaqwāta		 أَقْوَاتَ
ʔaqwāta
Genitive أَقْوَاتٍ
ʔaqwātin		 الْأَقْوَاتِ
al-ʔaqwāti		 أَقْوَاتِ
ʔaqwāti

Descendants
  • → Ottoman Turkish: قوت (kut)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: क़ूत (qūt)
    Urdu: قوت (qūt)

References

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kut (“luck, good fortune”);[1] cognate with Old Turkic 𐰸𐰆𐱃 (q̊¹ut¹), Bashkir ҡот (qot), Chuvash хӑт (hăt), Kazakh құт (qūt), Karakhanid قُتْ (qut), Kyrgyz кут (kut), Tatar qot, Tuvan кут (kut), Uzbek қут (qut) and Yakut кут (kut).

Noun

قوت • (kut)

  1. luck, fortune, something favorable that happens to someone by chance
    Synonyms: اوغور (uğur), بخت (baht), حظ (hazz), طالع (taliʼ)
Derived terms
Descendants

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kut”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic قُوت (qūt, “food”).

Noun

قوت • (kut) (definite accusative قوتی (kutı), plural اقوات (akvat))

  1. food, aliment, any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating
    Synonyms: مانجه (manca), یی (yeyi), ییه‌جك (yeyecek)
Descendants

Further reading
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Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa, “power, strength”).

Alternative forms
  • قوه (kuvva)

Noun

قوت • (kuvvet) (definite accusative قوتی (kuvveti), plural قوی (kuva) or قوتلر (kuvvetler))

  1. might, power, vigour, the strength or force held by a person or group
    Synonyms: زور (zor), قدرت (kudret), گوچ (güç), مكنت (miknet)
    • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎, page 500:
      بزم ، جهان نظرنده اك بویوك قوت و قدرتمز ، یكی شكل و ماهیتمزدر.
      Bi­zim, cihan nazarında en büyük kuvvet ve kudretimiz, yeñi şekil ve mahiyetimizdir.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
  • اردو قوتی (ordu kuvveti, “army force”)
  • قوت آلمق (kuvvet almak, “to become strong”)
  • قوت ویرمك (kuvvet virmek, “to fortify”)
  • قوتسز (kuvvetsiz, “weak, feeble”)
  • قوتلنمك (kuvvetlenmek, “to become strong”)
  • قوتلو (kuvvetli, “strong, powerful”)
  • قوتپذیر (kuvvetpezir, “acquiring strength”)
Descendants

Further reading
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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [qʊw.wǽt̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [qʊw.wǽt̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [quw.wǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading? quwwat
Dari reading? quwwat
Iranian reading? ğo-w-vat
Tajik reading? quvvat

Noun
Dari قوت
Iranian Persian
Tajik қувват

قوت • (qovvat)

  1. strength
  2. power
  3. vigour
  4. force
  5. authority

Derived terms
  • قوت گرفتن (qovvat gereftan)
  • قوت داشتن (qovvat dâštan)
  • قوتو (qovvatu)

Descendants

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قُوَّت (quwwat), from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

Noun

قُوَّت • (quvvat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਕੁੱਵਤ)

  1. strength

Further reading
  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “قُوّت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قوت (quwwat), from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

Noun

قُوَتَ • (transliteration needed) ?

  1. strength

Further reading
  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “قُوَتَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • “قوت”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic قُوت (qūt).

Pronunciation

Noun

قُوت • (qūt) ? (Hindi spelling क़ूत)

  1. food

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian قوت (quwwat), from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

Pronunciation

Noun

قُوَّت • (quvvat) f (Hindi spelling क़ुव्वत)

  1. strength, power, force

References
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “قوت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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