قانونجی

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

Turkish: kanuncu

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

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