قورنیزه

Ottoman Turkish

قورنیزه

Alternative forms

• قورنیج (kornic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cornice (“frame, cornice”).

Noun

قورنیزه • (korniza)

1. cornice, a horizontal decorative moulding that usually crowns a building

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورنیزه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 981
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورنیزه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1487