اوغلانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوغلان (oğlan, “boy, lad”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اوغلانجی • (oğlancı)

1. pederast, a man who is engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy

Descendants

• Turkish: oğlancı
• → Armenian: օղլանճի (ōġlanči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oğlancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3591
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوغلانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 257