кындак

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Persian قنداق (qondâq). Cognate to Kyrgyz кундак (kundak, gunstock), Kazakh құндақ (qūndaq, gunstock), Karakalpak qundaq (gunstock), Nogai кундак (kundak, gunstock), Turkish kundak, etc.

Noun

кындак • (kïndak)

  1. gunstock

References

  • Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (2000) “ҚУНДАҚ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Indrik, pages 143, 144