kent

• IPA^(key): /kɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

kent

1. simple past and past participle of ken

• eath-kent

Perhaps a variant of the verb cant.

kent (plural kents)

1. (Scotland) A shepherd's staff.
2. (Scotland) A pole or pike.

kent (third-person singular simple present kents, present participle kenting, simple past and past participle kented)

1. (Scotland) To propel (a boat) using a pole.

• tekn-

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

kent

1. inflection of kennen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

• nekt

ken +‎ -t

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛnt]

kent

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of ken

   Vajat kent a pirítósra. ― S/he spread butter on the toast.

kent

1. past participle of ken

kent

1. inflection of kennen:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   3. plural imperative

• IPA^(key): [kɛnt], [kent]

kent

1. simple past tense and past participle of ken

kent (comparative mair kent, superlative maist kent)

1. known

• ert-kent

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• IPA^(key): [kɛnt]

kent (plural kents)

1. shepherd's staff

From Ottoman Turkish كنت (kent, “village, town, city”), from older كند (kend), from Sogdian 𐼸𐼰𐼻𐼹 (kand, “city”). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (kend, “city, settlement”). Possibly cognate with Northern Kurdish gund (“village”). Most likely not related to Finnish kenttä (“field”).[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /cænt/

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kent (definite accusative kenti, plural kentler)

1. (countable) city

   Bu kentten bıktım. ― I am sick of this city.

• şehir

• köy
• kasaba

• IPA^(key): /kɛnt/

kent

1. wind

• Maurice Boxwell, Weri Organised Phonology Data (1992), p. 2