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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish چاپولجی, from چاپمق (çapmak, “to run, gallop; to raid, pillage”).
Noun
çapulcu (definite accusative çapulcuyu, plural çapulcular)
- marauder
1937 June 18, “Tuncelinde askerî harekât devam ediyor [Military operations continue in Tunceli]”, in Cumhuriyet, page 7:Çapulcu ve küstah bir adam olan Seyid Rıza daha evvelden Sultan Hamid idaresine karşı da baş kaldırmiş ve o zamandanberi hile, şeytanet ve haydudluğile anılmakta bulunmuştur.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çapul”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ثاپولجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 699
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN