kismet

See also: Kismet and kısmet

English

WOTD – 23 November 2007

From Ottoman Turkish قسمت‎ (kısmet) (Turkish kısmet), from Arabic قِسْمَة‎ (qisma, “fate”).

kismet (usually uncountable, plural kismets)

Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.
- 2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian‎:
  Sexualised Catholicism, at the dawn of MTV, was Madonna’s first stroke of kismet.
- 2016, Derek James, "How I learned to appreciate Tim Duncan", Hardwood Paroxysm:
  "Whether it was kismet, luck, or Divine Intervention, we don't know."

fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny

Arabic: قِسْمَة‎ f (qisma)
Armenian: (good fate) ղսմաթ (hy) (łsmatʿ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 命運 (zh), 命运 (zh) (mìngyùn)
Czech: osud (cs) m
Dutch: lotbestemming
Finnish: kohtalo (fi)
Georgian: ყისმათი (ka) (q̇ismati), ბედი (bedi), იღბალი (iɣbali), ბედისწერა (bedisc̣era)
Hindi: क़िस्मत (qismat)
Hungarian: kiszmet
Icelandic: örlög (is) n, sköp (is) n
Ido: kismet (io)
Indonesian: nasib (id), takdir (id)
Macedonian: касмет m (k'smet), су̀дбина f (sùdbina)

Persian: تقدیر‎ (fa) (taqdir), قسمت‎ (fa) (qesmat)
Polish: los (pl) m, przeznaczenie (pl) n
Portuguese: fado (pt) m, destino (pt) m
Russian: кисме́т (ru) m (kismét), судьба́ (ru) f (sudʹbá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кисмет m, крсмет m, судбина f, удес m

Roman: kismet (sh) m, krsmet (sh) m, sudbina (sh) f, udes (sh) m
Sindhi: ڀاڳ‎ m
Slovak: kismet m
Spanish: hado (es) m, destino (es) m, sino (es) m
Turkish: kısmet (tr)
Urdu: قسمت‎ (qismat)
Uzbek: qismat (uz)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قسمت‎ (kısmet), from Arabic قِسْمَة‎ (qisma).

kìsmet m (Cyrillic spelling кѝсмет)

Declension of kismet

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