قورنازلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

قورنازلق • (kurnazlık)

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, Constantinople: Mihran, page 981
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورنازلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485

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