köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwndl /kundur/, “frankincense”). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian կնդրուկ (kndruk), Old Georgian გუნდრუკი (gundruḳi), Udi куьнддуьрукӏ (künddüruḳ), Aramaic [script needed] (qndrwg), Sanskrit कुन्दुर (kundura), कुन्दुरुक (kunduruka).
köken: From a Vulgar Latin root *thȳmānea, from Latin thȳmiāma, from Ancient Greek θυμίαμα (thumíama). Compare Sardinian timanza, timagna, Old French timoine; cf. also Aromanian timnjamã.
köken: Semi-learned borrowing from Malay kemenyan (possibly via Classical Malay kamiñan). Cognate with Khmer កំញាន (kɑmñaan), Western Cham [script needed] (kamơñan), Burmese ကက္ကုကမျဉ်း (kakku.ka.myany:). It was believed that it borrowed from Mon [komyaan] which did not exist.