English
kanat
Kanat comes from Hindustani क़नात ‘wall of tent’.
- Hindustanimodernक़नातqanāt‘wall of tent’
- Englishearliest quotation 1889kanat
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Hindustanimodernक़नातqanāt‘wall of tent’
- Englishearliest quotation 1889kanat
Earliest quotation: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, A Second-rate Woman: “There was an arrangement of loose-boxes in kanats, and…”
Every English word from Hindustani क़नात
Today it means
noun A canvas screen or partition forming the wall or division of a tent or other enclosure.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Hindustani क़नात / kanat