كنك

See also: کنگ, کبک, کپک, کپگ, گنگ, and کنک

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *kȫnek. According to Clauson, possibly the diminutive form of كُونْ (kȫn, “hide, skin”).

Noun

كُنَكْ (könek)

1. a container made of leather
2. (astronomy) Aquarius

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “könek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 731

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 392

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish, from Persian گنگ (gong).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [cyɳc]

Noun

كنك • (künk)

1. conduit, water or gutter pipe (especially if of clay)

Descendants

• Turkish: künk
• → Albanian: qynke, çungu
• → Armenian: քիւնկ (kʻiwnk)
• → Aromanian: ciunge, ciungu
• → Bulgarian: кюнк (kjunk), кю́нец (kjúnec)
• → Greek: κιούγκι (kioúgki)
• → Macedonian: ќунк (ḱunk)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ћу̏нак, чу̏нак

  Latin script: ćȕnak, čȕnak

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1044a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “künk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1028. ЌÚNǦE sb. f.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 149