قلقانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قلقان (kalkan, “shield”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, “occupational suffix”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaɫkand͡ʒɯ/

Noun

قلقانجی • (kalkancı)

  1. 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
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قلقانجی”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 707
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