Home › Words › K › konakkonak/kəʊˈnɑːk/konak means A palace or other large official residence in Turkey or the Ottoman Empire.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, konak ranks #2,710 of 42,752 for Qualifying.konak is pronounced /kəʊˈnɑːk/.EtymologyFrom Ottoman Turkish قوناق (konak, “mansion, station, inn”).nounA palace or other large official residence in Turkey or the Ottoman Empire.e.g.“It was a small pretty town with four minarets and one campanile and the Pasha's konak sprawling across the foothills.” — 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 841:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).