قونداقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قونداق (kundak, kondak, “gun-carriage, gun-stock”) +‎ ـجی (cı, “occupational suffix”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kundɑkˈt͡ʃɯ], [kondɑkˈt͡ʃɯ]

Noun

قونداقجی • (kundakçı, kondakçı)

1. incendiary, someone who had the job to care for the firing equipment, especially cannons
2. fabricant of butts and stocks of rifles and mounts of cannons

Descendants

• Turkish: kundakçı, family names: Kundakçı, Kondakçı
• → Armenian: Կոնդախչյան (Kondaxčʻyan), Կոնդակչյան (Kondakčʻyan), Ղոնդախչյան (Ġondaxčʻyan)
• → Bulgarian: кондакчия (kondakčija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: кунда̀кчија

  Latin script: kundàkčija

  • → Hungarian: kundakcziak pl

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قونداقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1499