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Kismet
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
fate, destiny, a term used by Mahommedans to express all the incidents and details of man's lot in life. The word is the Turkish form of the Arabic gismat, from gasama, to divide.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Kismet'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/k/kismet.html. 1910.