قونداق

Ottoman Turkish edit

قونداق

Alternative forms edit

قنداق (kundak, kondak), قوندق (kundak, kondak)

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion), diminutive of Byzantine Greek κόνταξ (kóntax, “pole”), diminutive of Ancient Greek κοντός (kontós, “pole”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [kunˈdɑk], [konˈdɑk]

Noun edit

قونداق • (kundak, kondak)

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

Derived terms edit

قونداقجی (kundakçı, kondakçı, “incendiary; butt- and mount-fabricant”)

Descendants edit

Turkish: kundak
→ Albanian: kondak
→ Arabic: قَنْدَاق (qandāq), قَنْدَق (qandaq)
→ Armenian: խունտախ (xuntax), կոնդաղ (kondaġ), ղոնդաղ (ġondaġ)
→ Aromanian: cundáchie
→ Bulgarian: конда́к (kondák)
→ Greek: κοντάκι (kontáki)
→ Macedonian: кундак (kundak)
→ Persian: قنداق (qondâq), غنداق (ğondâq), قنداغ (qondâğ), قنداقه (qondâqe)
→ Romanian: condác
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ку̀ндак

Latin script: kùndak

References edit

Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 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)‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 520–522
Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قونداق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 410
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قونداق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1498
Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[4] (in German), volume 51, page 302
Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “401. cundáḱe”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[5], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 104