cornac

Borrowed from Portuguese cornaca, from Sinhalese කූරුව-නායක (kūruwa-nāyaka, “elephant trainer”), from කූරුව (kūruwa, “elephant department”) + Sanskrit नायक (nāyaka, “guide, leader”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.nak/

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cornac m (plural cornacs)

1. mahout, elephant driver
2. (figuratively) guide

• cornaquer (verb)

• “cornac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French cornac.

cornac m (plural cornaci)

1. mahout