What is "kismet"

Kismet \Kis"met\, n. [Per. qismat.] Destiny; fate. [Written also kismat.] [Oriental]

"fate, destiny," 1834, from Turkish qismet, from Arabic qismah, qismat "portion, lot, fate," from root of qasama "he divided."\n\nFrom a nation of enthusiasts and conquerors, the Osmanlis became a nation of sleepers and smokers. They came into Europe with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other: were they driven out of their encampment, it would be with the Koran in one hand and the pipe in the other, crying: 'Kismet! Kismet! Allah kehrim!' (God hath willed it! God is great!)

[Dr. James O. Noyes, "The Ottoman Empire," "The Knickerbocker," October 1858]

n. fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.

n. (Islam) the will of Allah [syn: kismat]

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Kismet is a robot head made in the late 1990s at Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal as an experiment in affective computing; a machine that can recognize and simulate emotions. The name Kismet comes from a Turkish word meaning "fate" or sometimes "luck".

Kismet is a musical with lyrics and musical adaptation (as well as some original music) by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Alexander Borodin, and a book by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis, based on Kismet, the 1911 play by Edward Knoblock. The story concerns a wily poet who talks his way out of trouble several times; meanwhile, his beautiful daughter meets and falls in love with the young Caliph.

The musical was first produced on Broadway in 1953 and won the Tony Award for best musical in 1954. It was also successful in London's West End and has been given several revivals. A 1955 film version was released by MGM.

Kismet is a network detector, packet sniffer, and intrusion detection system for 802.11 wireless LANs. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring mode, and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic. The program runs under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X. The client can also run on Microsoft Windows, although, aside from external drones (see below), there's only one supported wireless hardware available as packet source.

Distributed under the GNU General Public License, Kismet is free software.

Kismet, also known as Paragon, Her, and Ayesha, is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She exists in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe. Ayesha will appear in the film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, portrayed by Elizabeth Debicki.

Kismet is a Finnish chocolate bar produced by Fazer.

Kismet is a flat, rectangular bar. It is about 15 cm long, 5 cm wide and 1 cm thick. It is divided into four sections that are easy to break from each other. It weighs about 55 g and contains an estimated 283 calories with 17 g of total fat.

Kismet is made of crisp waffle and nougat covered in milk chocolate.

In late 2009, early 2010 Fazer began an advertising campaign for the new Raspberry flavoured Kismet bar.

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Kismet ([Urdu] (قسمت)) is a fictional character, a cosmic entity published by DC Comics. Created by Jerry Ordway and Tom Grummett, the character first appeared in Adventures of Superman #494 (September 1992). Kismet in Urdu language literally means fate.

Kismet is the trademarked name of a commercial dice game introduced in 1964. The game's name is the Turkish word for "fate". E.William DeLaittre holds the trademark on the game, originally published by Lakeside Games, and currently produced by Endless Games. Marketed as "The Modern Game of Yacht", the game play is similar to Yacht and Yahtzee, with a few variations. A primary distinction is that in Kismet, the sides of the dice have different colored pips.

Kismet is a 1943 Indian film, written and directed by Gyan Mukherjee and produced by Bombay Talkies during the second world war period, while it was in a succession battle between Devika Rani and Sashadhar Mukherjee after owner Himanshu Rai's death. The film is one of the biggest hits in the history of Hindi cinema. The movie was the first blockbuster movie of Indian cinema.

The film came with some bold themes for the first time in Indian Cinema showing an anti-hero character, double role and an unmarried girl getting pregnant.

Kismet, in comics, may refer to:

• Kismet (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
• Kismet (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
• Kismet Deadly, a character from Malibu Comics' Ultraverse

Kismet is a 1944 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film in Technicolor starring Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, and Florence Bates. James Craig played the young Caliph of Baghdad, and Edward Arnold was the treacherous Grand Vizier. It was directed by William Dieterle, but was not a success at the box office. Dieterle had directed Marlene two decades prior in the German silent film Man by the Wayside, which was both the first role in which Dietrich was cast competitively and Dieterle's directorial debut.

The film is based on the play of the same name by Edward Knoblock, which was also the basis for a 1953 musical. The play had been filmed three times before, in 1914, 1920, and again in 1930 by Warner Brothers in an English version directed by John Francis Dillon and in a German-language version directed by William Dieterle.

Kismet is a 1930 American pre-Code costume drama film photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. called Vitascope. The film, now considered lost, was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner.

Kismet (1955) is an American musical film in Cinemascope and Eastman Color released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is the fourth movie version of Kismet—the first was released in 1920 and the second in 1930 by Warner Brothers—and the second released by MGM. The 1955 film is based on the successful 1953 musical Kismet, while the three earlier versions are based on the original 1911 play by Edward Knoblock.

Kismet ( 1920) is a silent film version of the 1911 play Kismet by Edward Knoblock, starring Otis Skinner and Elinor Fair, and directed by Louis J. Gasnier.

Skinner's daughter, author Cornelia Otis Skinner, plays a small role. This version was released by Robertson-Cole Distributing Company, and was released on VHS by Grapevine Video. In New England the distribution of the film was handled by Joseph P. Kennedy who organized a successful premiere in Boston.

Skinner filmed the play again in a 1930 talkie. This film is lost but its Vitaphone soundtrack survives.

Kismet ( which means destiny), is the first album by musician Jesca Hoop on September 17, 2007 through RED Ink Records. The song 'Love and Love Again is a co-write with David Baerwald while Stewart Copeland guests on the song 'Seed Of Wonder'. The song 'Intelligentactile 101' was released prior to the album. Many of the songs were "quite old", and Hoop cited the song, “Out the Back Door,” (a combination of early '20s Jazz and Hip/Hop) which she "wrote years ago, and then the movie, Idlewild, came out and it kind of reinforced my concept in that arena".

Kismet is a three-act play written in 1911 by Edward Knoblauch (who later anglicised his name to Edward Knoblock). The title means Fate or Destiny in Turkish and Urdu. The play ran for two years in London and later opened in the United States. It was subsequently revived, and the story was later made into several films and the popular 1953 musical.

Kismet is a 1980 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Bhisham Kohli, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Ranjeeta Kaur, Shakti Kapoor and Om Shivpuri

Kismet is a compilation album by American neo soul/ jazz artist Adriana Evans, released in April 2005 under Universal Records. The collection consists of hit songs from previous albums, alternate remixes as well as new songs.

The set features a remix of the popular single, "Remember the Love" from her album Nomadic and is also (the theme song for Logo's TV series, Noah's Arc and its soundtrack Noah's Arc: Season 1.

Kismet is a superyacht which was built by the Lürssen shipyard in 2014. It is managed by the Moran Yacht and Ship chartering business and is associated with billionaire Shahid Khan.

Kismet were an Australian darkwave band, formed in 1993 by ex- Mizar guitarist Gorazd Chapovski after that band's breakup in 1991 and his relocation to Australia shortly after.

Kismet is a 1931 American drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Dita Parlo and Vladimir Sokoloff. It was made at the German-language version of the 1930 Warner Brothers film Kismet''.

Kismet (subtitled A Jazz Interpretation by the Mastersounds) is an album by The Mastersounds led by vibraphonist Buddy Montgomery with pianist Richie Crabtree, bassist Monk Montgomery and drummer Benny Barth along with guitarist Wes Montgomery featuring performances of tunes originally composed by Alexander Borodin and adapted by Robert Wright and George Forrest for the musical Kismet recorded in 1958 and released on the World Pacific label.