قلقانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قلقان‎ (kalkan, “shield”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, “occupational suffix”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaɫkand͡ʒɯ/

Noun

قلقانجی • (kalkancı)

  1. shield-maker or shield-seller

References
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قلقانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3750
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “قلقانجی”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 707
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