آرسلانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آسلانجی (aslancı)

Etymology

From آرسلان (arslan, “lion”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

آرسلانجی • (arslancı)

1. lion tamer, a performer who interacts with a lion as an entertainment

Descendants

• Turkish: aslancı
• →⇒ Armenian: Արսլանճյան (Arslančyan)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آرسلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 35b
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aslancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 320
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرسلانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 67