ییلانجقجی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ییلانجق (yılancık, “erysipelas”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]ییلانجقجی • (yılancıkcı)
- quack doctor who treats erysipelas
Further reading
[edit]- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلانجقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2224