قورنیزه
Ottoman Turkish
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[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 981
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورنیزه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1487