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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From نشان (nişan, “sign, mark, target”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
نشانجی • (nişancı)
- marksman, sharpshooter, a person skilled at hitting targets
- former title of an officer of the Ottoman Government, whose duty is to inscribe the Sultan's imperial cypher over all imperial letters-patent.
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nişancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3553
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نشانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1275
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نشانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5181
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نشانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2084