مكنت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُكْنَة (mukna, “capability, strength”).

Noun

مكنت • (miknet)

1. might, power, the strength or force held by a person or group

   Synonyms: زور (zor), طاقت (takat), قدرت (kudret), قوت (kuvvet), گوچ (güç)

Descendants

• Turkish: miknet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “miknet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3218
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “miknet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 773
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مكنت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1217
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Potentia”, 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 1327
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مكنه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4869
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مكنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1959