konak
See also: koňak
English
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قوناق (konak, “mansion, station, inn”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊˈnɑːk/
Noun
konak (plural konaks)
- A palace or other large official residence in Turkey or the Ottoman Empire.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 841:
- It was a small pretty town with four minarets and one campanile and the Pasha's konak sprawling across the foothills.
Chuukese
Indonesian
Noun
konak (first-person possessive konakku, second-person possessive konakmu, third-person possessive konaknya)
- (informal, vulgar) libido, sexual urges
See also
Karaim
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *kon-.
References
- N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “konak”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوناق (konak, “mansion, station, inn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kǒnak/
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