قیت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kït (“not enough, insufficient”).

Adjective

قیت • (kıt)

1. scarce
2. little, few

Derived terms

• قیتلق (kıtlık)

Descendants

• Turkish: kıt
• → Armenian: խըթ (xətʻ)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1504
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 996