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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian قرناس (qurnās).
Adjective
قورناز • (kurnaz)
- sly, crafty, cunning, wily, skillful at deceiving others
- Synonym: آصمق (asmak)
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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, 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, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485