فائضجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From فائض (faʼiz, “interest”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

فائضجی • (faʼizci)

usurer, loan shark, someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest

Descendants

Turkish: faizci

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “faizci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1540
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فائضجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1363

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