cornaca

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From Sinhalese කූරුව-නායක (kūruwa-nāyaka, “elephant trainer”), from කූරුව (kūruwa, “elephant department”) + Sanskrit नायक (nāyaka, “guide, leader”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -akɐ Hyphenation: cor‧na‧ca === Noun === cornaca m (plural cornacas) mahout (elephant driver and keeper) ==== Descendants ==== → Galician: cornaca → Spanish: cornaca → French: cornac → Polish: kornak → Romanian: cornac === Further reading === “cornaca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “cornaca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Portuguese cornaca. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /koɾˈnaka/ [koɾˈna.ka] Rhymes: -aka Syllabification: cor‧na‧ca === Noun === cornaca m (plural cornacas) elephant guide, elephant trainer, mahout === Further reading === “cornaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025