بندقي

Arabic

Etymology

Backformation of الْبُنْدُقِيَّة (al-bunduqiyya, “Venice”). Compare بُنْدُقِيَّة (bunduqiyya).

Noun

بُنْدُقِي • (bunduqī) f

1. ducat, gold coin minted in Venice.

Descendants

• → Malay: bunduki

References

• Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “بندقي”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2^nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “بندقي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “بندقي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen