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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From شاهین (şahin, “peregrine falcon”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
شاهینجی • (şahinci)
- (historical) groom of the peregrine falcons, one of the four sets of royal falconers
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şahinci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4415
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاهینجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 718
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاهینجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1113