فائضجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From فائض (faʼiz, “interest”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

فائضجی • (faʼizci)

1. usurer, loan shark, someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest

Descendants

• Turkish: faizci

Further reading

• 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