شریعتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شریعت (şeriʼat, “shari'a, Islamic law”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

شریعتجی • (şeriʼatcı)

1. (historical) the legal assistant of a Kazasker during the Ottoman Empire

Descendants

• Turkish: şeriatçı
• → Armenian: շէրիաթճի (šēriatʻči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şeriatçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4462
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شریعتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 726
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شریعتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1124