منجنیقجی
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom منجنیق (mancınık, “trebuchet, ballista, catapult”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
editمنجنیقجی • (mancınıkcı)
- catapulter, a worker of trebuchets, ballistas, catapults, or similar siege engines
Descendants
edit- Turkish: mancınıkçı
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mancınıkçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3045
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منجنیقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1994