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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From صاواش (savaş, “battle, fight, combat”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
صاواشجی • (savaşcı)
- warrior, fighter, combatant, a person who is actively engaged in a battle
- Synonyms: جنكجی (cenkci), دوغشجی (döğüşcü)
- brawler, wrangler, rooster, one who engages in noisy, unseemly fights
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “savaşçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4091
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pugnator”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1402
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صواشجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3000
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاواشجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1163