فائضجی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From فائض (faʼiz, “interest”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]فائضجی • (faʼizci)
- usurer, loan shark, someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: faizci
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “faizci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1540
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فائضجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1363