شاهینجی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From شاهین (şahin, “peregrine falcon”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]شاهینجی • (şahinci)
- (historical) groom of the peregrine falcons, one of the four sets of royal falconers
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: şahinci
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şahinci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4415
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاهینجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 718
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاهینجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1113