اورمانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اورمان (orman, “forest, wood”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اورمانجی • (ormancı)

1. forest-guard, a person who looks after forest works

Descendants

• Turkish: ormancı
• →⇒ Armenian: Օրմանջյան (Ōrmanǰyan), Օրմանճյան (Ōrmančyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ormancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3632
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اورمانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 246