قونداق

Ottoman Turkish

قونداق

قونداق

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kunˈdɑk], [konˈdɑk]

Noun

قونداق • (kundak, kondak)

1. bundle, faggot, oakum, roll of rags or anything
2. cloths wrapped around an infant, “baby roll”, swaddling-clothes
3. (firearms) gun carriage, mount of a cannon
4. (firearms) gunstock, rifle butt

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• 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

• 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aromanskiot]‎^[5], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 104