قلت

See also: قلب

Arabic

Etymology 1

Verb

قلت (form I)

1. قُلْتُ (qultu) /qul.tu/: first-person singular past active of قَالَ (qāla)
2. قُلْتَ (qulta) /qul.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of قَالَ (qāla)
3. قُلْتِ (qulti) /qul.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of قَالَ (qāla)
4. قِلْتُ (qiltu) /qil.tu/: first-person singular past passive/active of قَالَ (qāla)
5. قِلْتَ (qilta) /qil.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive/active of قَالَ (qāla)
6. قِلْتِ (qilti) /qil.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive/active of قَالَ (qāla)

Etymology 2

Verb

قَلَتْ • (qalat) (form I) /qa.lat/

1. third-person feminine singular past active of قَلَا (qalā)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِلَّة (qilla, “littleness, fewness”).

Noun

قلت • (kıllet) (definite accusative قلتی (kılleti), plural قلتلر (kılletler))

1. littleness, fewness, smallness, the state, quality, or condition of being little, few, or small

   Synonym: آزلق (azlık)

2. scarcity, scantiness, paucity, dearth, the state, quality, or condition of being scarce or scanty

   Synonym: قیتلق (kıtlık)

Derived terms

• جمع قلت (cemʼ-i kıllet, “Arabic plural of paucity”)
• قلت فهم (kıllet-i fehm, “stupidity, scarcity of intelligence”)
• قلت مطر (kıllet-i matar, “drought, scarcity of rain”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kıllet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıllet1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2605
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kıllet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 617
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 968
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Paucitas”, 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 1253
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3743
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1468