From Ottoman Turkish قورندی (ḳurundu, ḳuruntu, “any wild fancy taken into the head”), 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)”), morphologically kur- + -un + -tu.