ییلانجقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ییلانجق (yılancık, “erysipelas”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

ییلانجقجی • (yılancıkcı)

quack doctor who treats erysipelas

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلانجقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2224

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