صاواشجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صاواش (savaş, “battle, fight, combat”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

صاواشجی • (savaşcı)

1. warrior, fighter, combatant, a person who is actively engaged in a battle

   Synonyms: جنكجی (cenkci), دوغشجی (döğüşcü)

2. brawler, wrangler, rooster, one who engages in noisy, unseemly fights

Descendants

• Turkish: savaşçı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “savaşçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4091
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pugnator”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1402
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صواشجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3000
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاواشجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1163