قونداق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- قنداق (kundak), قوندق (kundak)
Etymology
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion), diminutive of Byzantine Greek κόνταξ (kóntax, “pole”), diminutive of Ancient Greek κοντός (kontós, “pole”).
Noun
قونداق • (kundak)
- bundle, faggot, oakum, roll of rags or anything
- cloths wrapped around an infant, “baby roll”, swaddling-clothes
- (firearms) gun carriage, mount of a cannon
- (firearms) gunstock, rifle butt
Descendants
- Turkish: kundak
- → Albanian: kondak
- → Arabic: قَنْدَاق (qandāq), قَنْدَق (qandaq)
- → Armenian: ղոնդաղ (łondał)
- → Aromanian: cundáchie
- → Bulgarian: конда̀к (kondàk)
- → Greek: κοντάκι (kontáki)
- → Macedonian: кундак (kundak)
- → Persian: قنداق (kundâk)
- → Romanian: condác
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ку̀ндак
- Latin: kùndak
References
- Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Winter, pages 557–558
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission) (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 520–522
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “قونداق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 410
- Vollers, Karl (1897), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 51, page 302
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “401. cundáḱe”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 104