طوپجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From طوپ (top, “cannon, artillery”) + ـجی (-çu, “occupational suffix”).
Noun
طوپجی • (topçu)
- (military) gunner, artilleryman
Derived terms
- طوپجی باشی (topçu başı, “master general of artillery”)
- طوپجیلق (topçuluk, “the profession of artilleryman”)
Descendants
- Turkish: topçu
- → Romanian: topciu
- → Armenian: թոփչի (tʿopʿčʿi), ⇒ Թոփչյան (Tʿopʿčʿyan)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “topçu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4867
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طوپجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 811
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Tormentarius”, 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, Vienna, column 1679
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “طوپجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3135
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طوپجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1549