شاهینجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شاهین (şahin, “peregrine falcon”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

شاهینجی • (şahinci)

(historical) groom of the peregrine falcons, one of the four sets of royal falconers

Descendants

Turkish: şahinci

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şahinci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4415
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاهینجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 718
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاهینجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1113

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