طوپجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From طوپ (top, “cannon, artillery”) +‎ ـجی (-çu, “occupational suffix”).

Noun

طوپجی • (topçu)

1. (military) gunner, artilleryman, a soldier enlisted in an artillery unit or who uses artillery

Derived terms

• طوپجی باشی (topçu başı, “master general of artillery”)
• طوپجیلق (topçuluk, “artillery”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: topçu
• → Armenian: թոփչի (tʻopʻčʻi), ⇒ Թոփչյան (Tʻopʻčʻyan)
• → Romanian: topciu

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 3135
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوپجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1249