قولجی

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قول (kol, “arm; patrol”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix)

Noun

قولجی • (kolcu)

guard, watchman

Descendants

Turkish: kolcu
→ Armenian: խօլճի (xōlči), կոլջի (kolǰi)
→ Romanian: colgiu

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1495

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