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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قورندی (ḳurundu, ḳuruntu, “any wild fancy taken into the head”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish قورمق (ḳurmaḳ, “to establish, to organize, to set, to form, to take strange mad fancies into one's head”), from Proto-Turkic *kur- (“to set up, to draw (a bowstring)”),[2] morphologically kur- + -un + -tu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.ɾunˈtu/
- Hyphenation: ku‧run‧tu
Noun
kuruntu (definite accusative kuruntuyu, plural kuruntular)
- False and unfounded thought, unduly worry that something sinister is about to happen; imagination, delusion, fancy, foreboding.
- Synonyms: evham, vesvese, (dated) işkil, (psychology) delüzyon
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Further reading
- “kuruntu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu