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Ottoman Turkish
Noun
قناد • (kanad, kanat)
- Alternative spelling of قنات (kanat, “wing”)
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic .
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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qannāḏ
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| Dari reading?
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qannād
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| Iranian reading?
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ğannâd
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| Tajik reading?
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qannod
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Noun
قناد • (qannâd)
- confectioner
c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 143:زد لاف نیشکر بلب شیرین دوست
قناد صنع زان سببش بند بند کرد- zad lāf-i nayšakar ba-lab-i šīrīn-i dōst
qannād sun' z-ān sababaš band band kard - He boasted of sugarcane to the beloved's sweet lips;
For that, the confectioner had to close his business.
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قناد”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim