Etymology

konak

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Today it means: A palace or other large official residence in Turkey or the Ottoman Empire. Full definition →

Ottoman Turkish قوناق
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The story

  1. Ottoman Turkish · borrowed fromقوناق“mansion, station, inn”
  2. English todaykonak

From Ottoman Turkish قوناق (konak, “mansion, station, inn”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.