قورنیزه
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/DecorazioneASquame.jpg/220px-DecorazioneASquame.jpg)
Alternative forms
[edit]- قورنیج (kornic)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian cornice (“frame, cornice”).
Noun
[edit]قورنیزه • (korniza)
- cornice, a horizontal decorative moulding that usually crowns a building
Further reading
[edit]- 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