قناد

See also: قتاد

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kānat (wing).

Noun

قناد • (kanad) (definite accusative قنادی (kanadı), plural قنادلر (kanadlar))

  1. wing
    Synonym: جناح (cenah)
  2. fin
    Synonym: مسبح (misbah)
  3. doorleaf, valve
  4. wing (a part of a building located at the side)
    Synonym: جناح (cenah)
  5. vane, blade
    Synonym: جناح (cenah)
  6. breadth

Derived terms

  • ات قناد (et kanad, long-eared bat)
  • بورون قنادی (burun kanadı, ala of the nose)
  • صاری قناد (sarı kanad, roach)
  • قزل قناد (kızıl kanad, rudd)
  • قنادلانمق (kanadlanmak, to wing, develop wings)
  • قنادلو (kanadlı, winged)
  • قنادی آلتنده (kanadı altında, under protection)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kanat
  • Albanian: kanat
  • Armenian: խանատ (xanat), խանաթ (xanatʻ), կանադ (kanad)
  • Bulgarian: кана́т (kanát) (rare)
  • Macedonian: канат (kanat) (rare)
  • Romanian: canat
  • Serbo-Croatian: (rare)
    Cyrillic script: ка̀на̄т
    Latin script: kànāt

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Pseudo-Arabism as an Arabic occupational noun from قند (qand).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? qannād
Dari reading? qannād
Iranian reading? ġannâd
Tajik reading? qannod

Noun

قناد • (qannâd)

  1. confectioner
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 143:
      زد لاف نیشکر بلب شیرین دوست
      قناد صنع زان سببش بند بند کرد
      zad lāf-i nayšakar ba-lab-i šīrīn-i dōst
      qannād sun' z-ān sababaš band band kard
      He boasted of sugarcane to the beloved's sweet lips;
      For that, the confectioner had to close his business.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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