دكنكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دكنك (değenek, “stick, wand, cane”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

دكنكجی • (değenekci)

1. batoneer, one who uses a baton, especially a member of a corporation entrusted with keeping the city's security using these weapons

Descendants

• Turkish: değnekçi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “değnekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1132
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دكنكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 577