ییلانجقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ییلانجق (yılancık, “erysipelas”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

ییلانجقجی • (yılancıkcı)

1. quack doctor who treats erysipelas

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلانجقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2224