قوندورا

قوندورا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قوندوره‎ (kundura), قوندره‎ (kundura)

Etymology

Attested since the 16th century, the earliest attestations being in Italian transcription chondúra, condurà, which point to Ottoman Turkish kondura.

From Byzantine Greek κουντοῦρα (kountoûra, “shoe”), from κόντουρος (kóntouros), a sometimes nominalized epithet of a kind of post-horse.[1][2][3][4][5]

Noun

قوندورا • (kundura)

1. shoe

   Synonym: آیاق قابی‎ (ayak kabı)

Descendants

• Turkish: kundura, kondura, gundura, gondura
• → Arabic: قُنْدُرَة‎ (qundura), قُنْدَرَة‎ (qundara), كُنْدُرَة‎ (kundura), كُنْدَرَة‎ (kundara), كُنْتَرَة‎ (kuntara)
• → Armenian: խունտուրա (xuntura), կունդուռա (kunduṙa)
• → Azerbaijani: قوندارا‎ (Iran)
• → Bulgarian: ку́ндура (kúndura), кунду́ра (kundúra)
• → Greek: κουντούρι (kountoúri), κουντόρι (kountóri), κούντουρος (koúntouros), κουντούρα (kountoúra)
• → Gurani: قۆنرە‎ (qonra)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: qondere, kondere, qondre, qundire

  → Central Kurdish: قۆندەرە‎ (qondere)

• → Ladino: kondurya
• → Macedonian: кондура (kondura)
• → Middle Georgian: კონდურა (ḳondura)
• → Romanian: condur
• → Zazaki: qondıre
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ку̀ндура, ко̀ндура

  Latin: kùndura, kòndura

References

1. Krumbacher, Karl (1893), “Zu den griechischen Elementen im Arabischen und Türkischen”, in Byzantinische Zeitschrift‎ (in German), volume 2, pages 304–305
2. Symeonidis, Charalambos (1973), “Griechische lehnwörter im Türkischen”, in Balkan Studies‎ (in German), volume 14, § 92, page 180 of 167–200
3. Rocchi, Luciano (2009), “kondura”, in Il lessico turco nell’opera di Bernardino Pianzola (in Italian), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 154
4. Rocchi, Luciano (2013), “Vormeninskische Ergänzungen zu Stanisław Stachowskis “Beiträge zur Geschichte der griechischen Lehnwörter im Osmanisch-Türkischen””, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia‎ (in German), volume 18, issue 3, page 129 of 111–145
5. Stachowski, Marek (2019), “kundura”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, DOI:10.12797/9788381381581, page 238a

Further reading

• Asatrian, Garnik; Arakelova, Victoria (2001), “Blunt, Bald and Wise: Iranian kund(-)”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎, volume 5, page 202 of 201–206, derive from Iranian: compare Persian کنده‎‎ (kunda, “shackles”)
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kundura”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2022-03-01, derives from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos)
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “قنطورة”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 710, derives from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos)