یابانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یابان (yaban, “wilderness, wasteland; world of strangers”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

یابانجی • (yabancı)

1. stranger, a person whom one does not know, or is not an acquaintance
2. foreigner, outlander, alien, stranger, a person from another country

Descendants

• Turkish: yabancı
• → Armenian: յապանճի (yapanči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yabancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5146
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یابانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1348
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یابانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2178