اسیرجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

اسیر (esir, yesir, “captive, slave”) +‎ ـجی (-ci, occupational suffix), the first part from Arabic أَسِير (ʔasīr, “prisoner of war”).

Noun

اسیرجی • (esirci or yesirci)

1. slave dealer

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسیرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116