قوندورا

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Attested since the 16th century, the earliest attestations being in Italian transcription chondúra, condurà, which point to Ottoman Turkish kondura.

From Byzantine Greek κουντοῦρα (kountoûra, shoe), from κόντουρος (kóntouros), a sometimes nominalized epithet of a kind of post-horse.[1][2][3][4][5]

Noun

قوندورا (kundura)

  1. shoe
    Synonym: آیاق قابی (ayak kabı)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Krumbacher, Karl (1893) “Zu den griechischen Elementen im Arabischen und Türkischen”, in Byzantinische Zeitschrift (in German), volume 2, pages 304–305
  2. ^ Symeonidis, Charalambos (1973) “Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen”, in Balkan Studies (in German), volume 14, § 92, page 180
  3. ^ Rocchi, Luciano (2009) “kondura”, in Il lessico turco nell’opera di Bernardino Pianzola (in Italian), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 154
  4. ^ Rocchi, Luciano (2013) “Vormeninskische Ergänzungen zu Stanisław Stachowskis “Beiträge zur Geschichte der griechischen Lehnwörter im Osmanisch-Türkischen””, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia (in German), volume 18, number 3, page 129 of 111–145
  5. ^ Stachowski, Marek (2019) “kundura”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 238a

Further reading

  • Asatrian, Garnik, Arakelova, Victoria (2001) “Blunt, Bald and Wise: Iranian kund(-)”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 5, page 202 of 201–206, derive from Iranian: compare Persian کنده (konda, shackles)
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kundura”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2022-03-01, derives from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos)
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قنطورة”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 710, derives from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos)