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 (ōłlanči)
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