kıt kanaat
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Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From kıt (“scarce, insufficient”) + kanaat (“contentment, making do with”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- (idiomatic) In poverty, scarcity, hand-to-mouth, scantly.
- Synonym: kıtı kıtına
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “kıt kanaat”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıt kanaat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2641