كنت

See also: کنت and گنت

Arabic

Verb

كنت (form I)

1. كُنْتُ (kuntu) /kun.tu/: first-person singular past active of كَانَ (kāna)
2. كُنْتَ (kunta) /kun.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of كَانَ (kāna)
3. كُنْتِ (kunti) /kun.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of كَانَ (kāna)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كند (kend)

Etymology

From older كند (kend), from Proto-Turkic *kend (“town”), a root which ultimately derives from Sogdian 𐼸𐼰𐼻𐼹 (kʾnδ, “town, city”). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (kend, “city, settlement”).

Noun

كنت • (kent)

1. village, a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town

   Synonyms: ده (dih), قریه (karye), كوی (köy)

2. town, city, any large settlement with shops and a local government

   Synonyms: شهر (şehir), مدینه (medine)

Descendants

• Turkish: kent

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kent”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2550
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كند”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 397b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1043
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Villa”, 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 1761
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كنت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4031
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kent”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1575