قونداقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قونداق (kundak, kondak, “gun-carriage, gun-stock”) +‎ ـجی (cı, “occupational suffix”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kundɑkˈt͡ʃɯ], [kondɑkˈt͡ʃɯ]

Noun

قونداقجی • (kundakçı, kondakçı)

incendiary, someone who had the job to care for the firing equipment, especially cannons
fabricant of butts and stocks of rifles and mounts of cannons

Descendants

Turkish: kundakçı, family names: Kundakçı, Kondakçı
→ Armenian: Կոնդախչյան (Kondaxčʻyan), Կոնդակչյան (Kondakčʻyan), Ղոնդախչյան (Ġondaxčʻyan)
→ Bulgarian: кондакчия (kondakčija)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: кунда̀кчија

Latin script: kundàkčija
- → Hungarian: kundakcziak pl

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قونداقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1499

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