اسیرجی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
اسیر (esir, yesir, “captive, slave”) + ـجی (-ci, occupational suffix), the first part from Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr, “prisoner of war”).
Noun edit
اسیرجی • (esirci or yesirci)
- slave dealer
References edit
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسیرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116