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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
قلقان (kalkan, “shield”) + ـجی (-cı, “occupational suffix”).
Pronunciation
Noun
قلقانجی • (kalkancı)
- shield-maker or shield-seller
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلقانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3750
- Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 163
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قلقانجی”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 707