غنیمت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• ղանիմէթ (ğanimet) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَنِيمَة (ḡanīma, “booty, loot”), verbal noun of غَنِمَ (ḡanima, “to loot”).

Noun

غنیمت • (ganimet) (definite accusative غنیمتی (ganimeti), plural غنائم (ganâʼim))

1. loot, booty, spoil, plunder, goods seized from an enemy with violence

   Synonyms: پلاچقه (plaçka), تاراج (tarac), چاپول (çapul), یغما (yağma)

2. godsend, windfall, an instance of unexpected benefit or good fortune

Derived terms

• غنیمت آلمق (ganimet almak, “to take booty”)
• غنیمت بیلمك (ganimet bilmek, “to consider as godsend”)
• غنیمت كورمك (ganimet görmek, “to seize as an opportunity”)
• غنیمتلك (ganimetlik, “anything suitable to be looted”)
• مال غنیمت (mal-ı ganimet, “booty”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ganimet
• → Crimean Tatar: ğanimet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ganimet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1641
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ganîmet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 331
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غنیمت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 877
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spolium”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1587
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “غنیمة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3434
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ganimet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غنیمت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1353

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian غَنِیمَت (ğanīmat), from Arabic غَنِيمَة (ḡanīma).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /ɣə.niː.mət̪/, [ɣɐ.niː.mɐt̪ᵊ]
  • (rustic) IPA^(key): [ɡɐ.niː.mɐt̪ᵊ]
• Hyphenation: غَ‧نِی‧مَت

Noun

غَنِیمَت • (ġanīmat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਗ਼ਨੀਮਤ)

1. booty, plunder
2. boon, blessing

Declension

Declension of غنیمت

	singular	plural
direct	غَنِیمَت (ġanīmat)	غَنِیمَتاں (ġanīmatāṉ)
oblique	غَنِیمَت (ġanīmat)	غَنِیمَتاں (ġanīmatāṉ)
vocative	غَنِیمَتے (ġanīmate)	غَنِیمَتو (ġanīmato)
ablative	غَنِیمَتوں (ġanīmatoṉ)	غَنِیمَتاں (ġanīmatāṉ)
locative	غَنِیمَتی (ġanīmatī)	غَنِیمَتِیں (ġanīmatīṉ)
instrumental	غَنِیمَتِیں (ġanīmatīṉ)	غَنِیمَتے (ġanīmate)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “غنِیمَت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਗਨੀਮਤ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025