# levent
## Latin
### Verb

lēvent
* third-person plural present active subjunctive of lēvō

## Middle Low German
### Etymology

Gerund of lēven (“to live”).

### Pronunciation

* Stem vowel: ē²
** (originally) IPA: /lɪɛvənt/

### Noun

levent n (genitive levendes, dative levende)
* life

#### Alternative forms

* levend (less common form marking morphology rather than pronunciation)

#### Synonyms

* lif

#### Descendants

* Levend

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* levint, livint — obsolete

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لوند (levend). First attested in the 18th century.
The positive senses mirror developments in other Balkan languages, such as Greek λεβέντης (levéntis) or Serbo-Croatian lèvēnta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /leˈvent/
* Rhymes: -ent
* Hyphenation: le‧vent

### Adjective

levent m or n (feminine singular leventă, masculine plural levenți, feminine and neuter plural levente)
* (dated) gallant, well-mannered
** 1879 October 1, Ion Luca Caragiale, “O noapte furtunoasă [A Stormy Night]”, in Iacob Negruzzi, editor, Convorbiri Literare, year 13, number 7, Iași, page 250:Mĕ rog, odată ce nu e bărbatul levent, ce fel de casă să mai fie ș’aia?I mean, if the man is not well-mannered, what sort of household even is that?
** 1940, Liviu Rebreanu, Amândoi [Both]‎, Bucharest: Socec, page 72:Era proaspăt îndrăgostită de tânărul Pascal Delulescu, practicant fără leafă la judecătorie, care pe-atunci era un băiat drăguț, levent și desghețat de se scurgeau ochii fetelor după el.She was freshly in love with the young Pascal Delulescu, unpaid intern at the courthouse, back then a pretty, gallant and smart boy that the girls were fawning over.
** 1978 October, Valentin Silvestru, Teatrul [Theatre], year 23, number 10, page 84:Conducea un redactor de televiziune, bărbat surîzător, cît se poate de pașnic și de levent.A TV redactor was in charge, a smiling man, as peaceful and gallant as it gets.
** 2005 October 29, D.M., Tribuna Sibiului, Sibiu, page 2:Am despăgubit-o cu un pachet de țigări "Bega", pentru că sunt levent și nu mă uit la bani…I paid her damages with a pack of "Bega" cigarettes, since I am gallant and spare no expense…
* (obsolete, of men) capable, in one's prime
** 1718–1729, Radu Popescu, Istoriile domnilor Țării Românești [Histories of the rulers of Wallachia]; edited in Cronicari munteni [Muntenian chroniclers], volume 1, Bucharest: Editura pentru Literatură, 1961, page 505:Și așa în taină au mersu de au zis că fiind om mai sprinten, mai levent, ar putea face această treabă, să izgonească catanele du peste Olt.And thus, in secret, they went and said that he, being a more agile, more capable man, could do this thing—to expel the soldiers from beyond the Olt.
* (obsolete, folk poetic, of hajduks) fearless
** “La stîlpșor de brad” (traditional ballad gathered in 1899 from Gheorghe Lazăr, Ialomița); published in Folclor din Oltenia și Muntenia, volume 5, Bucharest: Minerva, 1970, page 71:Oastea de haiduci, De haiduci levinți, Duși de la părinți De cînd erau mici.The host of hajduks, Of fearless hajduks, Taken from their parents From a young age.

### Noun

levent m (plural levenți) (historical)
* levend (soldier of the Ottoman Navy)
** 1737, Constantine Mavrocordatos, letter; transcribed and published in Nicolae Iorga, Studii și documente cu privire la istoria romînilor [Studies and documents concerning the history of the Romanians]‎, volume 16, Bucharest: Socec, 1909, page 4:[…] să să rădice Măria Sa seraschiarĭ Murtazà-Pașà cu oștile înpărătești, cu 55 de steaguri de serdenghečti, și cu 40 de steaguri de levenț, și cu 30 de steaguri de aghialeturĭ […] […] for His Highness Murtaza Pasha Serasker to come up with the imperial armies, with 55 troops of serdengeçti, and with 40 troops of levends, and with 30 troops of provincial soldiers […]
* Moldovan mercenary in Wallachia
* member of a Hungarian nationalistic paramilitary group between 1920 and 1945
** 1940 September 24, “Cel mai groaznic masacru din istoria modernă [The most horrible massacre in modern history]”, in Universul [Universe], year 57, number 263, Bucharest, page 5:Dela mânăstire, bandele de levenți au trecut în Țara Oașului și în Maramureș unde au masacrat toți românii întâlniți.From the monastery, the bands of levends went over to Oaș Country and Maramureș where they massacred every Romanian they met.

#### Declension
### Further reading

* levent in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
* Marius Sala, Gheorghe Mihăilă, editors (2008), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎, volume 4, Bucharest: Romanian Academy, pages 764–765

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /leˈvænt/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish لوند (levend), from Persian لوند (lavand, “flirtatious”).

#### Noun

levent (definite accusative levendi, plural leventler)
* (historical, naval) infantry of the Ottoman Navy

##### Declension
#### Adjective

levent
* tall
* (idiomatic) handsome

#### Derived terms

* leventlik

### Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish لوند, from Italian levante.

#### Noun

levent (definite accusative levendi, plural leventler)
* levante

##### Declension
### Further reading

* “levent”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu