اوغلانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوغلان (oğlan, “boy, lad”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اوغلانجی • (oğlancı)

pederast, a man who is engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy

Descendants

Turkish: oğlancı
→ Armenian: օղլանճի (ōġlanči)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oğlancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3591
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوغلانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 257

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