قانجی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]قان (kan, “blood”) + ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix)
Noun
[edit]قانجی • (kancı)
- blood-letter; phlebotomist
- bloodthirsty tyrant
References
[edit]- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425