Kismet
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Kismet (Turkish, Urdu as well as Hindi and Arabic, "fate"--derived from the Arabic term qisma; modified in Persian as qismat and then from Turkish it came to English usage) can refer to several things:
- Kismet (principle), the magnetic attractive force that actualizes the playing out of karma; often used in the positive sense
[edit] Locations
- Kismet, Kansas
- Kismet, New York, a town on Fire Island
[edit] Other uses
- Kismet (program), a computer program used to analyze wireless network traffic
- Kismet (robot), a robot intended to demonstrate simulated emotion
- Kismet (comics), a Marvel Comics superheroine
- Kismet (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
- Kismet (chocolate bar)
- Kismet (dice game)
- Kismet (gameplay scripting), gameplay scripting tool for the Unreal Engine from Epic Games
[edit] Arts
- Kismet (musical), a 1953 Broadway musical built around the music of Alexander Borodin, and adapted from a 1911 play by Edward Knoblock.
- Kismet is the name of more than 15 films; among the best known is the lavish 1930 Warner Brothers production starring Loretta Young and Otis Skinner which was shot in an early widescreen process known as the Vitascope, the 1943 Hindi film Kismet which stars Ashok Kumar, 1955 (directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on the 1953 musical) and 1944 (starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich), and based on Knoblock's play. This is sometimes shown on television as Oriental Dream.
- Kismet was a band formed by Macedonians in Australia (1993-1999), lead by Gorazd Chapovski from the band Mizar.
- Kismet Kismet is a musical duo
