kismet

name

1. An unincorporated community in Madera County, California.
2. A small city in Seward County, Kansas.
3. A hamlet in Suffolk County, New York.

noun

Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish قسمت (kısmet, “fate, destiny”) (Turkish kısmet), from Arabic قِسْمَة (qisma, “division, lot, destiny”).

1. Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.

   “But these things are kismet, and we only find out all about them just when any knowledge is too late.”

   “"Golly!" he cried. "I'm awfully sorry, Bo'sun, but you're It. You're luck's clean out to-day. What rotten Kismet you do have. The Lot fell on you all right, smack in the middle of your chest."”