نشانجی
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom نشان (nişan, “sign, mark, target”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
editنشانجی • (nişancı)
- marksman, sharpshooter, a person skilled at hitting targets
- former title of an officer of the Ottoman Government, whose duty is to inscribe the Sultan's imperial cypher over all imperial letters-patent.
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nişancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3553
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نشانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1275
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نشانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 5181
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نشانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2084