فالجی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From فال (fal, “divination, augury”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix). Cognate with Azerbaijani falçı.
Noun
[edit]فالجی • (falcı)
- diviner, fortune-teller, soothsayer, seer, clairvoyant, augur, one who foretells the future by way of an occultic ritual or practice
Derived terms
[edit]- فالجیلق (falcılık, “quality or vocation of a diviner”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “فال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 398
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “falcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1542
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فالجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 884
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mantes”, 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 1005
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فالجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 3458
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فالجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1362