طوپجیلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From طوپجی (topcu, “artilleryman”) +‎ ـلق (-luk, “-ness, -hood”).

Noun

طوپجیلق • (topculuk)

1. artillery, an army unit that uses large guns or projectile weapons

Descendants

• Turkish: topçuluk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “topçuluk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4865
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوپجیلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 811
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوپجیلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1249