قانونجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قانون (kanun, “law; dulcimer”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

قانونجی • (kanuncu)

1. legislator, lawmaker, someone who creates or enacts laws
2. maker or player of qanun, an instrument related to the dulcimer

Descendants

• Turkish: kanuncu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kanuncu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2392
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قانونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 938
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قانونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1426