konaki

plural konakis

1. A shrine for the Anastenaria.

   By 5:30 pm the konaki is already crowded.

   2017, Evy Johanne Håland, Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient, →ISBN

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   At about six the firewalkers met in the house of their leader, in the konaki, the room where the Saints' holy icons hang throughout the year, to be taken out for the festival.

   1963, The Spectator - Volume 210, page 802

   The Anastenarides gather at the konaki early on the eve of May 21.

   2016, Peter Loizos, Evthmios Papataxiarchis, Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece, →ISBN, page 99

   Early on the evening of May 20 the only people at the new konaki were Mihalis, some officers of the Folklore Society, and a few older women.

   2016, Loring M. Danforth, Firewalking and Religious Healing, →ISBN

plural konakis · plural koneke

1. alternativeAlternative form of koneke.

   The konaki was ideal for carrying out winter feed, fence posts and cream cans where the ground was rough or wet.

   1994, Gordon Ell, New Zealand Traditions & Folklore, page 106

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   Designed to give a lighter draught and at the same time be of more general use, the konaki has replaced the ordinary farm sledge on many farms in Taranaki.

   1942, New Zealand Journal of Agriculture - Volumes 64-65, page 270

   The more common practice is to scrape the solid manure into a konaki, a walled sledge or cart, and allow the liquid to discharge into a drain.

   1967, Ralph Du Faur, Dairy Farming for Profit, page 206