قوت

See also: فوت and قوة

Arabic

Root
ق و ت (q w t)
1 term

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /quːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

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

• → Persian: قوت (qut)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قوت (kut)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: क़ूत (qūt)

  Urdu: قوت (qūt)

• → Northern Kurdish: qût

(via plural form أَقْوَات (ʔaqwāt)):

• → Uzbek: ovqat
• → Kazakh: ауқат (auqat)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قوت”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kut (“luck, good fortune”); 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

• قوتسز (kutsuz, “unlucky, unfortunate”)
• قوتلانمق (kutlanmak, “to acquire luck”)
• قوتلو (kutlu, “lucky, fortunate”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kut

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kut2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2865
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 976
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kut”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1480

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

• Turkish: kut

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kut4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2865
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[5], Vienna: F. Beck, page 371b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[6], Constantinople: Mihran, page 976
• Mallouf, Nassif (1867) “قوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 1029
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Alimentum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[7], Vienna, column 48
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 3779
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1480

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), طاقت (takat), قدرت (kudret), گوچ (güç), مكنت (miknet)

   • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎^[10], 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

• Turkish: kuvvet
• → Crimean Tatar: quvet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuvvet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2872
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[11], Vienna: F. Beck, page 371b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[12], Constantinople: Mihran, page 976
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Potentia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[13], Vienna, column 1327
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[14], Vienna, columns 3779-3780
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuvvet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[15], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1480

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [quw.ˈwat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qʊw.wǽt̪]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qov.vǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [quw.vǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	quwwat
Dari reading?	quwwat
Iranian reading?	ġovvat
Tajik reading?	quvvat

Noun

Dari	قوت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қувват

قوت • (qovvat)

1. strength, power, vigor, force
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 425:

     تا کسی ندهد به کودک هیچ چیز
     قوت پیران از این بیش است نیز

     tā kasē na-dihad ba kōdak hēč čīz
     quwwat-i pīrān az īn bēš ast nīz

     So that no one should give the boy anything:
     the power of the Pírs is even greater than this.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• → Gujarati: કુવ્વત (kuvvat), કૌવત (kauvat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: क़ुव्वत (quvvat)

  Urdu: قوت (quvvat)

• → Marathi: कुवत (kuvat)
• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi script: قُوَّت (quvvat)

• → Sindhi: قوت

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic قُوت (qūt).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [quːt]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [quːt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [quːt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [quːt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qut̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [quːt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qut̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	qūt
Dari reading?	qūt
Iranian reading?	ġut
Tajik reading?	qut

Noun

قوت • (qut)

1. (literary) sustenance

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قوت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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 Classical Persian قُوت (qūt), from Arabic قُوت (qūt).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /quːt̪/

Noun

قُوت • (qūt) ? (Hindi spelling क़ूत)

1. food

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qʊʋ.ʋət̪/

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.