یابانجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یابان (yaban, “wilderness, wasteland; world of strangers”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
یابانجی • (yabancı)
- stranger, a person whom one does not know, or is not an acquaintance
- foreigner, outlander, alien, stranger, a person from another country
Descendants
- Turkish: yabancı
- → Armenian: յապանճի (yapanči)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yabancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5146
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یابانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1348
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یابانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2178