name
Meaning 1
An unincorporated community in Madera County, California.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
kismet
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈkɪz.mɛt/
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Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈkɪs.mɛt/
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CMU ARPABET: K IH1 Z M IH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A small city in Seward County, Kansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A hamlet in Suffolk County, New York.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, chance, destin, doom, fatality, foredoom, foreordination, kismet, orlay, portion, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, weird, wyrd
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
(Islam) the will of Allah
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: kismat
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: destiny, fate
History
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قسمت (kısmet, “fate, destiny”) (Turkish kısmet), from Arabic قِسْمَة (qisma, “division, lot, destiny”).
Across languages
Translations
70 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: قِسْمَة (qisma) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Armenian: ղսմաթ (ġsmatʻ) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Azerbaijani: qismət — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Chinese Mandarin: 命運 /命运 (mìngyùn) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Czech: osud — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Dutch: lotbestemming — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Finnish: kohtalo — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- French: destin — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Georgian: ყისმათი (q̇ismati) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Georgian: ბედი (bedi) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Georgian: იღბალი (iɣbali) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Georgian: ბედისწერა (bedisc̣era) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: क़िस्मत (qismat) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: किसमत (kismat) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: तक़दीर (taqdīr) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: तकदीर (takdīr) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: किस्मत (kismat) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: लेख (lekh) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: कर्म (karm) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: करम (karam) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: नसीब (nasīb) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: मुक़द्दर (muqaddar) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: मुकद्दर (mukaddar) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: भाग (bhāg) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hindi: भाग्य (bhāgya) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Hungarian: kiszmet — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Icelandic: örlög — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Icelandic: sköp — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Ido: kismet — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Indonesian: nasib — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Indonesian: takdir — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Italian: destino — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Italian: fato — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Kazakh: кисмет (kismet) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Ladino: kismet — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Macedonian: касмет (kasmet) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Macedonian: судбина (sudbina) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Macedonian: к’смет (k’smet) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Macedonian: крсмет (krsmet) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Persian: تقدیر (taqdir) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Persian: قسمت (qesmat) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Polish: los — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Polish: przeznaczenie — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Portuguese: fado — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Portuguese: destino — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Portuguese: sina — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Portuguese: quismete — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Romanian: câsmet — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Russian: кисме́т (kismét) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Russian: судьба́ (sudʹbá) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Serbo-Croatian: кисмет — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Serbo-Croatian: крсмет — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Serbo-Croatian: судбина — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Serbo-Croatian: удес — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Serbo-Croatian: kismet — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Serbo-Croatian: krsmet — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Serbo-Croatian: sudbina — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Serbo-Croatian: udes — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Sindhi: ڀاڳ (bhāg̠) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Slovak: kismet — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Spanish: hado — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Spanish: destino — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Spanish: sino — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Spanish: kismet — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Thai: พรหมลิขิต (prom-lí-kìt) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Thai: ลิขิตสวรรค์ — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Thai: ลิขิตฟ้า — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Turkish: kısmet — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Urdu: قسمت (qismat) — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
- Uzbek: qismat — fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny