صاواشجی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From صاواش (savaş, “battle, fight, combat”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]صاواشجی • (savaşcı)
- warrior, fighter, combatant, a person who is actively engaged in a battle
- brawler, wrangler, rooster, one who engages in noisy, unseemly fights
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: savaşçı
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “savaşçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4091
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pugnator”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[1], Vienna, column 1402
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صواشجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 3000
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاواشجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1163