mancınıkçı
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish منجنیقجی (mancınıkçı, “catapulter”); equivalent to mancınık (“trebuchet, catapult, ballista”) + -cı.
Noun
[edit]mancınıkçı (definite accusative mancınıkçıyı, plural mancınıkçılar)
- catapulter, a worker of trebuchets, ballistas, catapults, or similar siege engines
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mancınıkçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 499