korkunç
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish قورقنج, morphologically kork- + -un + -ç.
Adjective
[edit]korkunç
- scary, frightening
- terrible
- 1929 December 31, Cumhuriyet:
- Avrupa'da dehşetli ve korkunç fırtınalar var
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “korkunç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورقنج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484