hikmet
Meaning
- wisdom, knowledge
- The purpose of God not understood by people.
- Secret reason.
- (dated) A word of advice.
- (obsolete) physics
- (obsolete) philosophy
Hyphenated as
hik‧met
Pronounced as (IPA)
/hicˈmet/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish حكمت (ḥikmet, “an ultimate occult cause or motive for existence or occurrence, a point of knowledge, a system of philosophy, science”), from Arabic حِكْمَة (ḥikma, “wisdom, knowledge, philosophy”), verbal noun of حَكُمَ (ḥakuma, “to be wise, to establish solidly”).
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