قوندوز
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- قوندز (kunduz)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kunduŕ (“beaver”); cognate with Azerbaijani qunduz, Bashkir ҡондоҙ (qondoź), Chuvash хӑнтӑр (hănt̬ăr), Kazakh құндыз (qūndyz), Kyrgyz кундуз (kunduz), Turkmen gunduz, Uyghur قۇندۇز (qunduz) and Uzbek qunduz.
Noun
قوندوز • (kunduz)
- beaver, any semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor
- Synonyms: بادستر (badester), قضاعه (kuzaʿa), هزد (hezed)
Derived terms
- قوندوز بوجكی (kunduz böceği, “Spanish fly”)
- قوندوز خایهسی (kunduz hayası, “castor”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kunduz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2838
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوندز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 378a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوندوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 992
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fiber”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 569
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوندز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3808
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kunduz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوندوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1499
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