But these things are kismet, and we only find out all about them just when any knowledge is too late.
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Kismet
//ˈkɪz.mɛt//
Synonyms for "kismet" (53 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (26)
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Translations
70 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- قِسْمَة noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Armenian
1 entries- ղսմաթ noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qismət noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 命運 /命运 noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Czech
1 entries- osud noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Dutch
1 entries- lotbestemming noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Finnish
1 entries- kohtalo noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
French
1 entries- destin noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Georgian
4 entries- ბედი noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- ბედისწერა noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- იღბალი noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- ყისმათი noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Hindi
4 entries- करम noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- कर्म noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- क़िस्मत noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- किसमत noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Hungarian
1 entries- kiszmet noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Icelandic
2 entries- sköp noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- örlög noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Ido
1 entries- kismet noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Indonesian
2 entries- nasib noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- takdir noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Italian
2 entries- destino noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- fato noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Kazakh
1 entries- кисмет noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Ladino
1 entries- kismet noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Macedonian
4 entries- касмет noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- крсмет noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- к’смет noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- судбина noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Persian
2 entries- تقدیر noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- قسمت noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Polish
2 entries- los noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- przeznaczenie noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Portuguese
4 entries- destino noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- fado noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- quismete noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- sina noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Romanian
1 entries- câsmet noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Russian
2 entries- кисме́т noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- судьба́ noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kismet noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- krsmet noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- sudbina noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- udes noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Sindhi
1 entries- ڀاڳ noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Slovak
1 entries- kismet noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Spanish
4 entries- destino noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- hado noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- kismet noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- sino noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Thai
3 entries- พรหมลิขิต noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- ลิขิตฟ้า noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
- ลิขิตสวรรค์ noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Turkish
1 entries- kısmet noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Urdu
1 entries- قسمت noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Uzbek
1 entries- qismat noun (fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
"Golly!" he cried. "I'm awfully sorry, Bo'sun, but you're It. You're luck's clean out to-day. What rotten Kismet you do have. The Lot fell on you all right, smack in the middle of your chest."
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But at this point fickle Kismet, who for a day had played with him bitterly and sardonically, decided to reward him in full for the amusement he had afforded her. Kismet turned the tawny eyes of the snake-charmer to the camel. Kismet led her to lean toward the man beside her and say, "Who's that? That camel?"
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Sexualised Catholicism, at the dawn of MTV, was Madonna’s first stroke of kismet.
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