فائضجی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From فائض (faʼiz, “interest”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun edit
فائضجی • (faʼizci)
- usurer, loan shark, someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest
Descendants edit
- Turkish: faizci
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “faizci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1540
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فائضجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1363