كنك

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See also: کنگ, کبک, کپک, کپگ, گنگ, and کنک

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *kȫnek. According to Clauson, possibly the diminutive form of كُونْ (kȫn, “hide, skin”).

Noun

كُنَكْ (könek)

  1. a container made of leather
  2. (astronomy) Aquarius

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “könek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 731

Further reading

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Old Anatolian Turkish , from Classical Persian گُنْگ (gung).

Pronunciation

Noun

كنك • (günk, künk)

  1. conduit, water or gutter pipe (especially if of clay)
Descendants

References

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1044a
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “künk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1028. ЌÚNǦE sb. f.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 149

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian گَنْگ (gang).

Proper noun

كنك • (Geng)

  1. the Ganges
Descendants

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