kanaat
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Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قناعت (“contentment”), from Arabic قَنَاعَة (qanāʕa). The sense meaning opinion arose in early modern Turkish.
Noun
kanaat (definite accusative kanaati, plural kanaatler)
- opinion; conviction
- 1936 April 30, “Son Telgraflar”, in Ulusal Birlik, page 4:
- Herkes, İspanyanın Bolşevikliğe doğru gittiği kanaatini beslemektedir.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- satisfaction, contentment
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kanaat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قناعت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1474
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 592
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