قوندوز

Ottoman Turkish

قوندوز

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)

1. 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

• Turkish: kunduz
• → Arabic: قُنْدُس (qundus), قُنْدُز (qunduz)
• → Armenian: խունտուզ (xuntuz)

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^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 378a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوندوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 3808
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kunduz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوندوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1499