كوندوز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كوندز (gündüz)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish کندوز (gündüz), from Proto-Turkic *küntüŕ (“at day, at daytime”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰇𐰦𐰇𐰔 (kündüz), Azerbaijani gündüz, Bashkir көндөҙ (köndöź), Chuvash кӑнтӑр (kănt̬ăr), Kazakh күндіз (kündız), Kyrgyz күндүз (kündüz), Turkmen gündiz, Uyghur كۈندۈز (kündüz), Uzbek kunduz and Yakut күнүс (künüs).

Noun

كوندوز • (gündüz) (definite accusative كوندوزی (gündüzü), plural كوندوزلر (gündüzler))

1. day, daytime, upsun, the time of day during which the sun is up, between sunrise and sunset

   Synonym: نهار (nahar)

Adverb

كوندوز • (gündüz)

1. by day, in the daytime, during the day

   Synonym: كوندوزین (gündüzün)

Derived terms

• كوندوز صفا (gündüz safa, “morning glory”)
• كوندوز وقتی (gündüz vakti, “daytime”)
• كوندوزلك (gündüzlük, “diurnal”)
• كوندوزلو (gündüzlü, “diurnal”)
• كوندوزین (gündüzün, “by day, in the daytime”)
• كوپه كوندوز (güpe gündüz, “in broad daylight”)
• كیچه كوندوز (geçe gündüz, “day and night”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gündüz

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كوندوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 680
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gündüz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1804
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوندز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 405b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوندوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1061
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dies”, 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 382
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوندز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4095
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gündüz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوندوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1604