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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قانون (kanun, “law; dulcimer”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun
قانونجی • (kanuncu)
- legislator, lawmaker, someone who creates or enacts laws
- maker or player of qanun, an instrument related to the dulcimer
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kanuncu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2392
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قانونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 938
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1426