قنات

See also: فتات

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *kājnat (“wing”).

Alternative forms

• قانات (kanat), قناد (kanad, kanat), قاناد (kanad, kanat)

Noun

قنات • (kanat)

1. wing
2. fin of a fish
3. wing or leaf of a door
4. wing or flank of a building
5. breadth of cloth

Descendants

• Turkish: kanat
• → Armenian: խանատ (xanat), խանաթ (xanatʻ), կանադ (kanad)
• → Bulgarian: кана́т (kanát) (rare)
• → Macedonian: канат (kanat) (rare)
• → Romanian: canat
• → Serbo-Croatian: (rare)

  Cyrillic script: ка̀на̄т

  Latin script: kànāt

Etymology 2

From Persian قنات (qanât), from Arabic قَنَاة (qanāh).

Noun

قنات • (kanat)

1. pipe, conduit, irrigation-trench, canal, qanat

   Synonyms: قنال (kanal), جدول (cedvel)

Descendants

• Turkish: kanat

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَنَاة (qanāh).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qa.ˈnɑːt]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.nɑ́ːt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.nɑ́ːt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qä.nɑ́ːt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qä.nɔ́ːt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæ.nɒ́ːt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.nɔ́t̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	qanāt
Dari reading?	qanāt
Iranian reading?	ğanât
Tajik reading?	qanot

Noun

قنات • (qanât) (plural قنات‌ها (qanât-hâ))

1. qanat (underground irrigation system)

   Synonym: کاریز (kâriz)

Usage notes

• Traditionally, these channels are called قنات (qanât) in western Iran and کاریز (kâriz / kārēz) in eastern Iran and Afghanistan.

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قنات”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim