fonduk

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic فُنْدُق‎ (funduq, “hotel; inn; manor house”), entered the English lexicon during the 19th and 20th centuries. Doublet of fondaco.

Noun

fonduk (plural fonduks)

  1. A North African or Arabian inn or hotel.
    • 1991, Mark D. Meyerson, The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel:
      Wine, if it was drunk anywhere in the morerías, was most likely served in the fonduks.
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