تفنكجی

Ottoman Turkish

تفنكجی

Etymology

تفنك (tüfenk) +‎ ـجی (-çi).

Noun

تفنكجی • (tüfenkçi)

1. musketeer, rifleman
2. gunsmith
3. policeman

Descendants

• Turkish: tüfekçi

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تفنكجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1298