قوناق

See also: قۇناق and قوْناق

Azerbaijani

Noun

قوناق (qonaq) (definite accusative قوناغی (qonağı), plural قوناقلار (qonaqlar))

1. Arabic spelling of qonaq, alternative spelling of قوْناق (qonaq)

Declension

Declension of قوناق

	singular	plural
nominative	قوناق	قوناقلار
definite accusative	قوناغێ	قوناقلارێ
dative	قوناغا	قوناقلارا
locative	قوناقدا	قوناقلاردا
ablative	قوناقدان	قوناقلاردان
definite genitive	قوناغێن	قوناقلارێن

Chagatai

قوناق

Etymology 1

From Common Turkic *konak (“millet”).

Noun

قوناق (qonaq)

1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

Alternative forms

• قوناغ (qonağ), قونوق (qonuq)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *kon (“guest”).

Noun

قوناق (qonaq)

1. a place where one alights, inn, station, mansion, quarter, billet
2. someone who alights in an inn or station, lodger, tenant, guest

Alternative forms

• قوناغ (qonağ)

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	قوناق
Cyrillic	қонақ
Latin	qonaq

Noun

قوناق • (qonaq)

1. Arabic spelling of қонақ (qonaq).

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قونق (konak)
• (guest): قونوق (konuk), قونق (konuk)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kon (“guest”).

Noun

قوناق • (konak)

1. an act of alighting, taking station
2. a place where one alights, inn, station, mansion, quarter, billet
3. a distance between two halting places, a day’s journey
4. someone who alights in an inn or station, lodger, tenant, guest
5. someone who lets people alight in his quarters, landlord, innkeeper

Derived terms

• قوناقلق (konaklık, “lodging, taking quarters”)
• قوناقجی and قوناقچی (konakçı, “quartermaster”)

Descendants

• Turkish: konak
• → Albanian: konák
• → Armenian: խոնախ (xonax), կոնախ (konax)
• → Aromanian: cunáchie
• → Bulgarian: кона́к (konák)
• → English: konak
• → Greek: κονάκι (konáki)
• → Macedonian: конак (konak)
• → Romanian: conác
• → Serbo-Croatian: ко̀нак / kònak

References

• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “401. CUNÁЌE”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 104
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قوناق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 722