# قنداق
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion), diminutive of Byzantine Greek κόνταξ (kóntax, “pole”), diminutive of κοντός (kontós, “pole”).

#### Noun

قِنْدَاق • (qindāq) m (plural قَنَادِيق (qanādīq))
* (obsolete) scroll, roll of writing, volumen
* (Christianity) prayer book, missal, kontakion

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قونداق (kundak, “bundle, faggot; rifle butt”), from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion), diminutive of Byzantine Greek κόνταξ (kóntax, “pole”), diminutive of κοντός (kontós, “pole”).

#### Alternative forms

* قَنْدَق (qandaq)

#### Noun

قَنْدَاق • (qandāq) m (plural قَنْدَاقَات (qandāqāt) or قَنَادِيق (qanādīq)) (colloquial)
* cloths wrapped around an infant, “baby roll”, swaddling-clothes
** 2012 April 22, “"القنداق" و"القماط"... طقوس لباس المولود”, in eSyria‎:
** 2014 May 24, “ar: "ديارة" المولود الجديد.. "قنداق ودقونة وشوالي"”, in eSyria‎:
* (firearms) gun carriage, mount of a cannon
* (firearms) gunstock, rifle butt

##### Declension
### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قنداق”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 410
* Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 51, page 302
* Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “قنداق”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎ (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 530

## Ottoman Turkish
### Noun

قنداق • (kundak)
* alternative spelling of قونداق (kundak)

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* غنداق (ğondâq), قنداغ (qondâğ), قنداقه (qondâqe)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قونداق (kundak, kondak, “bundle, faggot; rifle butt”), from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion), diminutive of Byzantine Greek κόνταξ (kóntax, “pole”), diminutive of κοντός (kontós, “pole”). The meaning of wrapped cloths may instead be from Sogdian, found prefixed with ni- in Sogdian [script needed] (nɣʾwntʾk, “blanket”), [script needed] (nɣʾwntʾ-, “to dress, to cover”) = Persian نهفتن (nehoftan).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [qun.ˈdɑːq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qʊn̪.d̪ɑ́ːq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qʊn̪.d̪ɑ́ːq]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [qʊn̪.d̪ɑ́ːq]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [qun̪.d̪ɔ́ːq]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [qon̪.d̪ɒ́ːɢ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [qun̪.d̪ɔ́q]

### Noun

قنداق • (qondâq) (plural قنداق‌ها (qondâq-hâ))
* cloths wrapped around an infant, “baby roll”, swaddling-clothes
* (firearms) gun carriage, mount of a cannon
* (firearms) gunstock, rifle butt

### References

* Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎ (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 520–522
* Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎ (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 77 fn. 91
* Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 51, page 302