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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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bunduq بُنْدُق , var. funduq , n.un. ‑aẗ , pl. banādiqᵘ 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BNDQ 
n.coll. 
1 hazelnut(s), filberts; hazel, hazel tree; -aẗ, n.f., hazelnut, filbert. – 2 bullet – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ From Grk pontikón (kárion) ‘Black Sea (nut), hazelnut’ (based on Grk póntos ‘sea’).
▪ [v2] Bullets were called bunduq because they looked like hazelnuts.1
▪ From bunduqaẗ ‘bullet’ was coined ‘the weapon with which to shoot bullets’, bunduqiyyaẗ.
▪ For ‘Venice’ cf. (al-)↗Bunduqiyyaẗ 
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DRS 2 (1994)#BNDQ: Syr būndᵉqā ‘boule’, Ar bunduq ‘noisette; balle de fusil’, bunduqiyyaẗ ‘arquebuse, fusil’, Soq bindūq, Mhr bəndúq, mindúq, Śḥr bendīq, endiq. 
▪ DRS 2 (1994)#BNDQ: From Grk pontikón (káryion) ‘Black Sea (nut), hazelnut’ (based on Grk póntos ‘sea’), Phlv pondik. Syr < Ar (Brockelmann).
▪ The variant funduq is not to be confused with the homonymous word for ‘caravanserai, hostel; hotel’, cf. ↗funduq. 
▪ Tu fındık: <1410 (Ḫıżır Paşa, Münteḫab-ı Şifā) fınduk : from Ar bunduq / funduq.
▪ Span albóndiga ‘meatball’: from Ar al-bunduqaẗ ‘the hazelnut’ (because of the ‘bullet’ form). 
► bunduqiyyaẗ, pl. banādiqᵘ, n., rifle, gun | ~ rašš, n., shotgun; ~ hawāʔiyyaẗ, n., airgun. 
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