fonduk

• fondak, fonduq, funduq, foundouk, fondouk, fonduck

From Arabic فُنْدُق‎ (funduq, “hotel; inn; manor house”). A word repeatedly borrowed into and among European languages, e.g. Medieval Latin fundicus, it entered the English lexicon during the 19th and 20th centuries. Doublet of fondaco.

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.

• fondaco

• “fondouk”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.