قورنازلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قورناز (kurnaz, “sly, cunning, wily”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, “-ness”).

Noun

قورنازلق • (kurnazlık)

1. slyness, cunningness, craftiness, wiliness, the state or quality of being sly

Descendants

• Turkish: kurnazlık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurnazlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2848
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورنازلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 981
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورنازلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485