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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From شریعت (şeriʼat, “shari'a, Islamic law”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
شریعتجی • (şeriʼatcı)
- (historical) the legal assistant of a Kazasker during the Ottoman Empire
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şeriatçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4462
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شریعتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 726
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شریعتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1124