قورناز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قرناس (qurnās).

Adjective

قورناز • (kurnaz)

1. sly, crafty, cunning, wily, skillful at deceiving others

   Synonym: آصمق (asmak)

Derived terms

• قورنازلق (kurnazlık, “slyness”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kurnaz
• → Armenian: խուռնազ (xuṙnaz), կուռնազ (kuṙnaz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurnaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2848
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورناز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 980
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 278
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kurnaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورناز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485