kismet
noun/ˈkɪzmet/
/ˈkɪzmet/
[uncountable] (literary)- the idea that everything that happens to you in your life is already decided and that you cannot do anything to change or control it synonym destiny, fateWord Originearly 19th cent.: from Turkish, from Arabic qisma ‘division, portion, lot’, from qasama ‘to divide’.
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