# قوت
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /quːt/
* Rhymes: -uːt

### Noun

قُوت • (qūt) m (plural أَقْوَات (ʔaqwāt))
* food

#### 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

### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قوت”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, 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)
* 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

#### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kut”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

#### 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, Constantinople: Mihran, page 976
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kut”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1480

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic قُوت (qūt, “food”).

#### Noun

قوت • (kut) (definite accusative قوتی (kutı), plural اقوات (akvat))
* 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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 371b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 3779
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, 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))
* 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, 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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 371b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, columns 3779-3780
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuvvet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1480

## Persian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic قُوَّة (quwwa).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [quw.ˈwat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qʊw.wǽt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qʊw.wǽt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [qʊw.wǽt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [quw.wǽt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [qov.vǽt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [quw.vǽt̪]

#### Noun

قوت • (qovvat)
* 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 نیزtā kasē na-dihad ba kōdak hēč čīz quwwat-i pīrān az īn bēš ast nīzSo 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: [quːt]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [quːt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [quːt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [quːt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [qut̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [quːt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [qut̪]

#### Noun

قوت • (qut)
* (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)
* 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) ?
* 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: /quːt̪/

#### Noun

قُوت • (qūt) ? (Hindi spelling क़ूत)
* food

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /qʊʋ.ʋət̪/

#### Noun

قُوَّت • (quvvat) f (Hindi spelling क़ुव्वत)
* strength, power, force

### References

* Platts, John T. (1884) “قوت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.