كنك

Inherited from Common Turkic *kȫnek. According to Clauson, possibly the diminutive form of كُونْ‎ (kȫn, “hide, skin”).

كُنَكْ (könek)

1. a container made of leather
2. (astronomy) Aquarius

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “könek”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 731

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), volume I, 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 392

From Old Anatolian Turkish, from Persian گنگ‎ (gong).

• IPA^(key): [cyɳc]

كنك • (künk)

1. conduit, water or gutter pipe (especially if of clay)

• Turkish: künk
• → Albanian: qynke, çungu
• → Armenian: քիւնկ (kʿiwnk)
• → Aromanian: ciunge, ciungu
• → Bulgarian: кюнк (kjunk), кю́нец (kjúnec)
• → Greek: κιούγκι (kioúgki)
• → Macedonian: ќунк (ḱunk)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ћу̏нак, чу̏нак

  Latin script: ćȕnak, čȕnak

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1044a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “künk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “1028. ЌÚNǦE sb. f.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 149