where did the word "Kiosk" come from?

Answer 1

Here's your answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiosk

Answer 2

The word kiosk is turkish, its those boxes were people go in.

Answer 3

The kiosk can be defined as an open summer-house or pavillion usually having its roof supported by pillars with screened or totally open walls. As a building type it was first introduced by the Suljuks as a small building attached to the main mosque. It fd consisted of a domed hall with open arched sides, gradually evolved into a summer house used by Ottoman sultans, perhaps the most famous of these kiosks are the Cinili koshk (kiosk in Turkish) and Baghdad Koshk. The first was built in 1473 by Mohammed al-Fatih at the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, and consists of a two storey building topped with a dome and having open sides overlooking the gardens of the palace. The Baghdad Koshk was also built at the Topkapi Palace in 1638-39, by Sultan Murad 4th. The building is again domed offering direct views onto the gardens and park of the Palace as well as the architecture of the city of Istanbul.

Sultan Ahmed III (1703-1730) also built a glass room of the Sofa kiosk at the Topkapi Palace incorporating some Western elements, such as the gilded brazier designed by the elder John Claude Duplessis which was given to the Ottoman Ambassador by King Louis 15th.

The first English contact with Turkish Kiosk came through Lady Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), the wife of the English ambassador to Constantinople, who in a letter written in 1 April 1717 to Anne Thistlethwayte, mentions a “chiosk” describing it as ‘raised by 9 or 10 steps and enclosed with gilded lattices” (Halsband, 1965 ed.). Historic sources confirm the transfer of these kiosks to European monarchs. The king of Poland, and the father in law of Louis 15th, Stanilsas of Lorraine built kiosks for himself based on his memories of his captivity in Turkey. These kiosks were used as garden pavilions serving coffee and beverages but later were converted into band stands and tourist information stands decorating most European gardens, parks and high streets.

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From Kiosk to Conservatory
From the kiosk evolved also the so called conservatories, glass rooms erected in gardens of most of European houses. Historic sources indicate that the earliest conservatories were perhaps those made by Humphry Repton for the Royal Pavilion at Brighton. These early conservatories were in the form of corridors connecting the Pavilion to the stables and consisting of a passage of flowers covered with glass and linked with orangery, a greenhouse, an aviary, a pheasantry and hothouses. The influence of Muslim and Islamo-Indian forms appears clearly in these buildings and particularly in the pheasantry where its higher part was an adaptation of the kiosks found on the roof of Allahabad Palace and illustrated by Thomas Daniell. Today’s conservatories still incorporate many Muslim elements, although modern art forms have shifted from the classical motifs.

Answer 4

I think Norway. Kiosk means a store where you can buy grocery items.

Answer 5

First used in English in 17th century, from French kiosque (a stand in a public park), from Turkish kösk pavilion.

Answer 6

Originally from Turkey.

Answer 7

I always thought it was Turkish and means pavilion. My OED confirms this. Strangely, it is not even listed in my Turkish/English dictionary!

Answer 8

It's Turkish.

Answer 9

it's certainly turkish and the meaning is pavilion or a stand. the french uses it too, with the same meaning.

Answer 10

Turkey I think.