قورنیزه

Ottoman Turkish

قورنیزه

Alternative forms

قورنیج (kornic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cornice (“frame, cornice”).

Noun

قورنیزه • (korniza)

cornice, a horizontal decorative moulding that usually crowns a building

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورنیزه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 981
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورنیزه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1487

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