شاهینجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شاهین (şahin, “peregrine falcon”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

شاهینجی • (şahinci)

1. (historical) groom of the peregrine falcons, one of the four sets of royal falconers

Descendants

• Turkish: şahinci

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şahinci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4415
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاهینجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 718
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاهینجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1113