kanaat

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

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

• 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