قورنازلق
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From قورناز (kurnaz, “sly, cunning, wily”) + ـلق (-lık, “-ness”).
Noun edit
قورنازلق • (kurnazlık)
- slyness, cunningness, craftiness, wiliness, the state or quality of being sly
Descendants edit
- Turkish: kurnazlık
Further reading edit
- 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