كندر

See also: کندر

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کندر (kundur).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kun.dur/

Noun

كُنْدُر • (kundur) m

1. frankincense, Boswellia thurifera tree and produce
   • a. 1165, ابن التلميذ [Ibn al-Tilmīḏ], edited by Oliver Kahl, The Dispensatory of Ibn At-Tilmīḏ الأقراباذين الكبير (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 70), Leiden: Brill, published 2007, →ISBN, page 72 Nr. 80:

     سفوف ممسك للبول
     سعد سنبل أسطوخوذس كندر قشار الكندر جفت البلوط مشوي أجزاء سواء يدق ويجمع ويتناول منه بالغدوات مثقال وآخر النهار مثقال

     A powder which retains urine
     Cyperus, Indian spikenard, French lavender, frankincense and the bark of its tree, and the grilled inner skins of acorn-cups in equal parts. (This) is pounded, brought together, and one miṯqāl from it is taken in the mornings and (again) at the end of the day.

Declension

Declension of noun كُنْدُر (kundur)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كُنْدُر kundur	الْكُنْدُر al-kundur	كُنْدُر kundur
Nominative	كُنْدُرٌ kundurun	الْكُنْدُرُ al-kunduru	كُنْدُرُ kunduru
Accusative	كُنْدُرًا kunduran	الْكُنْدُرَ al-kundura	كُنْدُرَ kundura
Genitive	كُنْدُرٍ kundurin	الْكُنْدُرِ al-kunduri	كُنْدُرِ kunduri

Ottoman Turkish

كندر

Alternative forms

• كندیر (kendir)
• քէնտիր (kendir) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kentir, *kendir (“hemp”); compare Bashkir киндер (kinder), Chuvash кантӑр (kant̬ăr), Karakalpak kendir, Kazakh кендір (kendır), Kyrgyz кендир (kendir), Tatar киндер (kinder), Turkmen kendir, Tuvan хендир (xendir) and Hungarian kender, an Oghur Turkic loanword.

Noun

كندر • (kendir)

1. hemp (Cannabis sativa)

   Synonyms: قنب (kınnap), كنویر (kenevir)

Descendants

• Turkish: kendir

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kendir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2547
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كندر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1044
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cannabis”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 143
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كندر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 4043–4044
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kendir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كندر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1578