# صندوق
## Arabic
### Etymology

From Aramaic צנדוק (ṣəndūq, “coffer, especially one storing documents, safe-guarding precious items”), ultimately from Ancient Greek σῠνθήκη (sŭnthḗkē).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤun.duːq/, /sˤan.duːq/
** (Kuwaiti) IPA: /sˤənˈduːɡ/
** (Moroccan) IPA: /sˤan.duːq/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

صُنْدُوق or صَنْدُوق • (ṣundūq or ṣandūq) m (plural صَنَادِيق (ṣanādīq))
* chest, box, trunk, crate
    فتحت ميشيل صندوقها الأسود القابع في أعماقهاfataḥat mīšīlu ṣundūqa-hā l-ʔaswada al-qābiʕa fī ʔaʕmāqi-hāMichelle opened her rarely visited black box in the bottom of her soul
* safe, money box, till
* treasurer's office, public fund
    يضغط صندوق النقد الدولي على باكستان لجباية الضرائب من أصحاب الأراضي الزراعيةyaḍġaṭu ṣundūqu an-naqdi ad-dawliyyu ʕalā bākistāna li-jibāyati aḍ-ḍarāʔibi min ʔaṣḥābi al-ʔarāḍī az-zirāʕiyyati.The International Monetary Fund is putting pressure on Pakistan to collect taxes from the owners of agricultural land.

#### Synonyms

* عُلْبَة (ʕulba)
* تَابُوت (tābūt)

#### Derived terms

* صَنَادِيقِيّ (ṣanādīqiyy)
* أَبُو صُنْدُوق (ʔabū ṣundūq)

#### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: صندوق (sandūʔ, sundūʔ)
* Gulf Arabic: صندوق (ṣandūg)
* Juba Arabic: sonduk
* Maltese: senduq
* Moroccan Arabic: صندوق (ṣandūq)
* → Amharic: ሳንዱቅ (sanduḳ)
** → Oromo: saanduqa
** → Tigrinya: ሳንዱቕ (sanduḳʰ)
* → Aramaic:
** → Classical Syriac: ܨܢܕܘܩܐ (ṣandūqā), ܣܢܕܘܩܐ (sandūqā)
* → Classical Persian: صَنْدُوق (sandūq)
** → Assamese: চন্দুক (sonduk)
** → Bengali: সিন্দুক (śinduk)
** → Azerbaijani: sandıq
** → Bashkir: һандыҡ (handıq)
** → Hindustani:
*** → Hindi: संदूक़ (sandūq)
*** → Urdu: صندوق (sandūq)
** → Kannada: ಸಂದೂಕ (sandūka)
** → Kazakh: сандық (sandyq)
** → Odia: ସିନ୍ଦୁକ (sinduka)
** → Ottoman Turkish: صندوق (sanduk)
*** → Turkish: sandık
*** → Albanian: sënduk
*** → Bulgarian: сандъ́к (sandǎ́k)
*** → Macedonian: са́ндак (sándak)
*** → Romanian: sunduc
*** → Russian: сунду́к (sundúk) (via Turkic)
**** → Solombala English: сундукъ (sunduk)
**** → Russenorsk: sondok
*** → Serbo-Croatian: са̀ндук / sànduk
** → Pashto: صندوق (sandúq)
** → Punjabi: ਸੰਦੂਕ਼ (sandūq), صندوق (ṣndoq)
** → Uyghur: ساندۇق (sanduq)
** → Uzbek: sandiq
* → Georgian: ზანდუკი (zanduḳi)
* → Kabyle: asenduq
* → Old Armenian: սնդուկ (snduk)
** → Armenian: սնդուկ (snduk), սնտուկ (sntuk)
* → Hausa: sàndūƙī̀
* → Mabaan: canduuk
* → Sango: sandûku
* → Somali: sanduuq
* → Swahili: sanduku
** → Kikuyu: ithandũkũ
** → Kituba: sandúku
** → Lingala: sandúku

### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սնդուկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 236b
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “صندوق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic صَنْدُوق (ṣandūq).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤan.duːɡ/

### Noun

صَنْدُوق • (ṣandūg) m (plural صناديق (ṣanādīg))
* box, chest

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian صندوق (sanduq, “box, trunk”), from Arabic صُنْدُوق (ṣundūq, “chest, trunk”), itself from Aramaic צנדוק (ṣəndūq, “coffer”), ultimetely from Ancient Greek σῠνθήκη (sŭnthḗkē, “coffin; container”).

### Noun

صندوق • (sandık or sanduk) (definite accusative صندوغی (sandığı, sanduğu), plural صندوقلر (sandıklar, sanduklar))
* chest, trunk, case, coffer, any large box for storing personal possessions
    Synonym: قوطی (kutu, kutı)
* cofferdam, a temporary watertight enclosure used to create a dry foundation

#### Derived terms

* احتیاط صندوغی (ihtiât sandığı, “reserve box”)
* اداره صندوغی (idâre sandığı, “savings bank”)
* اعتبار صندوغی (iʼtibar sandığı, “credit bank”)
* امنیت صندوغی (emniyet sandığı, “mount of piety”)
* تقاعد صندوغی (tekâʼüd sandığı, “pension fund”)
* صندوق آتمق (sandık atmak, “to construct a cofferdam”)
* صندوق امینی (sandık emini, “cashier”)
* صندوق بالغی (sandık balığı, “boxfish, cofferfish”)
* صندوق سپت (sandık sepet, “bag and baggage”)
* صندوقجی (sandıkcı, “maker or seller of chests”)
* صندوقكار (sandıkkâr, “assistant to the cashier”)
* صندوقلو (sandıklı, “furnished with boxes or chests”)
* صندوقچه (sandukçe, “a small box”)
* قوش صندوغی (kuş sandığı, “a bird organ”)
* كلیدلو صندوق (kilidli sandık, “mysterious thing”, literally “locked chest”)
* مال صندوغی (mal sandığı, “the office of a tax collector”)
* میشه صندوق (meşe sandık, “oaken coffer”)
* پوسته صندوغی (posta sandığı, “mailbox”)

#### Descendants

* → Turkish: sandık
* → Albanian: sënduk
* → Bulgarian: сандъ́к (sandǎ́k)
* → Macedonian: са́ндак (sándak)
* → Romanian: sunduc
* → Russian: сунду́к (sundúk) (via Turkic)
** → Solombala English: сундукъ (sunduk)
** → Russenorsk: sondok
* → Serbo-Croatian: са̀ндук / sànduk

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “صندوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 219
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sandık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4058
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صندوق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 303a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صندوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 768
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Capsa”, 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, Vienna, column 149
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صندوق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2992
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sandık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صندوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1187

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صُنْدُوق (ṣundūq)، from Aramaic צנדוק (ṣəndūq), ultimately from Ancient Greek σῠνθήκη (sŭnthḗkē).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [san.ˈduːq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sän̪.d̪úːq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sän̪.d̪úːq]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sän̪.d̪úːq]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [sän̪.d̪úq]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sæn̪.d̪úːɢ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sän̪.d̪úq]

### Noun

صندوق • (sanduq) (plural صندوق‌ها (sanduq-hâ) or صنادیق)
* box, trunk, case, chest, casket
* till, cash register

#### Derived terms

* صندوقچه (sanduqče)
* صندوقدار (sanduqdâr)

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: চন্দুক (sonduk)
* → Bengali: সিন্দুক (śinduk)
* → Azerbaijani: sandıq
* → Bashkir: һандыҡ (handıq)
* → Hindustani:
** → Hindi: संदूक़ (sandūq)
** → Urdu: صندوق (sandūq)
* → Kannada: ಸಂದೂಕ (sandūka)
* → Kazakh: сандық (sandyq)
* → Odia: ସିନ୍ଦୁକ (sinduka)
* → Ottoman Turkish: صندوق (sanduk)
** → Turkish: sandık
** → Albanian: sënduk
** → Bulgarian: сандъ́к (sandǎ́k)
** → Macedonian: са́ндак (sándak)
** → Romanian: sunduc
** → Russian: сунду́к (sundúk) (via Turkic)
*** → Solombala English: сундукъ (sunduk)
*** → Russenorsk: sondok
** → Serbo-Croatian: са̀ндук / sànduk
* → Pashto: صندوق (sandúq)
* → Punjabi: ਸੰਦੂਕ਼ (sandūq), صندوق (ṣndoq)
* → Uyghur: ساندۇق (sanduq)
* → Uzbek: sandiq

## South Levantine Arabic
### Alternative forms

* سندوق (sandūʔ)

### Etymology

From Arabic صَنْدُوق (ṣandūq).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Urban) /sˤan.duːʔ/, [sˤɑnˈdˤuːʔ]
* IPA: (Bedouin) /sˤan.duːɡ/, [sˤɑnˈdˤuːɡ]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Noun

صندوق • (ṣandūʔ) m (plural صناديق (ṣanādīʔ))
* box, chest
* boot, trunk (of a car)
* cash register
    Synonym: صندوق مسجل (sandūʔ musajjel)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian صندوق (sanduq), from Arabic صُنْدُوق (ṣundūq), ultimately from Ancient Greek σῠνθήκη (sŭnthḗkē).

### Noun

صندوق • (sandūq) m or f (Hindi spelling संदूक़)
* box, trunk, coffer, chest, casket

#### Related terms

* صندوقچہ (sandūqca)
* صندوقچی (sandūqcī)