قولجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قول (kol, “arm; patrol”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix)

Noun

قولجی • (kolcu)

1. guard, watchman

Descendants

• Turkish: kolcu
• → Armenian: խօլճի (xōlči), կոլջի (kolǰi)
• → Romanian: colgiu

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1495