hotel, hotel-management

The fruit of a certain tree, (Lth, O, K,) the same as the بُنْدُق, which has been mentioned before, [i. e. hazel-nut, or hazel-nuts,] (K,) or round, like the بُنْدُق, having a covering which, being removed, discloses a kernel (حَبّ), like the فُسْتُق. (Lth, O.) -A2- And, (Lth, O, K,) in the dial. of the people of Syria, A [building of the kind called] خَان [q. v.], where men alight and lodge, [and in which they deposit their goods,] of the خَانَات that are in the roads, (Lth, O, K, *) and in the cities: (Lth, O:) [said to be] a Pers. word, [app. from the Greek πανδοχεῖον occurring in Luke x. 34, as remarked by Golius,] mentioned by Sb: pl. فَنَادِقُ. (TA.)

A register of accounts: (O, K:) thought by As to be an arabicized word: but the word commonly known [in this sense] is with ق [i. e. قُنْدَاقٌ]. (TA.)