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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
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