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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اسیر (esir, “captive, prisoner; slave”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
اسیرجی • (esirci)
- slaver, slave trader, slavedealer, a person who buys and sells people as slaves
Derived terms
- اسیرجیلك (esircilik, “occupation of a slaver”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اسیرجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 59
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “esirci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1484
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسیرجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 95
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسیرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116