Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From صبان (saban, plow) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun edit

صبانجی (sabancı)

  1. plowman, plower, a maker, seller, or user of plows

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: sabancı
  • Armenian: Սապանճյան (Sapančyan)

Further reading edit

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صبانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1166
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 4)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis[2], volume 137, number 4, →DOI, page 299