kuruntu
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish قورندی (ḳurundu, ḳuruntu, “any wild fancy taken into the head”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish قورمق (ḳurmaḳ, “to establish, to organize, to set, to form, to take strange mad fancies into one's head”), from Proto-Turkic *kur- (“to set up, to draw (a bowstring)”),[2] morphologically kur- + -un + -tu.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkuruntu (definite accusative kuruntuyu, plural kuruntular)
- False and unfounded thought, unduly worry that something sinister is about to happen; imagination, delusion, fancy, foreboding.
Declension
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kur-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “kuruntu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu