kismet

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"It was his kismet -- his fate, your sublime highness," rejoined Mustapha,

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  • Or to vaguely and uneasily wonder when your lucky relationship with kismet -- or your child's -- will run out? —  rediff.com
  • September 1, 2008 12: 00 AM - Call it kismet or fate, or a strange collision of occurrences, but last month at the RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, two aspiring Mississauga businessmen, a rookie PGA pro, and buckets and buckets of rain, created the perfect storm. —  Mississauga News
  • I don't think that way anymore, but I still have a sense of kismet: as if I were destined to spend the first few days of 2009 checking in with some old sweethearts. —  The Website of Unknowing
  • The amazing things that have happened to me recently include kismet, random romance, encountering the famous and meeting my future wife in an unheated room of sweaty people. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • And in a bit of kismet, at about the same time that the company filed for bankruptcy, the Congressional Budget Office released a report which said that the corn ethanol scam is responsible for a significant portion of the recent increase in food prices. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Turkish, from Persian qismat, from Arabic qisma, lot, from qasama, to divide, allot; see qsm in Semitic roots.

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  1. from Turk, qismet, Persian Hind, qismat, from Arabic qisma(t), portion, lot, destiny, from qasama, divide.
 

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/ˈkɪsmɛt/
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