قنداق

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Arabic

Etymology 1

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

Noun

قِنْدَاق (qindāqm (plural قَنَادِيق (qanādīq))

  1. (obsolete) scroll, roll of writing, volumen
  2. (Christianity) prayer book, missal, kontakion
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قونداق (kundak, bundle, faggot; rifle butt), from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion), diminutive of Byzantine Greek κόνταξ (kóntax, pole), diminutive of κοντός (kontós, pole).

Alternative forms

Noun

قَنْدَاق (qandāqm (plural قَنْدَاقَات (qandāqāt) or قَنَادِيق (qanādīq)) (colloquial)

  1. cloths wrapped around an infant, “baby roll”, swaddling-clothes
    • 2012 April 22, “"القنداق" و"القماط"... طقوس لباس المولود”, in eSyria[1]:
    • 2014 May 24, “"ديارة" المولود الجديد.. "قنداق ودقونة وشوالي"”, in eSyria[2]:
  2. (firearms) gun carriage, mount of a cannon
  3. (firearms) gunstock, rifle butt
Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قنداق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[3] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 410
  • 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
  • Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “قنداق”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache[5] (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 530

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

قنداق (kundak)

  1. alternative spelling of قونداق (kundak)

Persian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قونداق (kundak, bundle, faggot; rifle butt), from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion), diminutive of Byzantine Greek κόνταξ (kóntax, pole), diminutive of κοντός (kontós, pole).

Noun

قنداق (kundâk) (plural قنداق‌ها (kundâk-hâ))

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

References

  • 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)‎[6] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 520–522
  • Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[7] (in German), volume 51, page 302