آرسلانجی
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- آسلانجی (aslancı)
Etymology[edit]
From آرسلان (arslan, “lion”) + ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun[edit]
آرسلانجی • (arslancı)
- lion tamer, a performer who interacts with a lion as an entertainment
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: aslancı
- →⇒ Armenian: Արսլանճյան (Arslančyan)
Further reading[edit]
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آرسلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 35b
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aslancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 320
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرسلانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 67