منجنیقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From منجنیق (mancınık, “trebuchet, ballista, catapult”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

منجنیقجی • (mancınıkcı)

1. catapulter, a worker of trebuchets, ballistas, catapults, or similar siege engines

Descendants

• Turkish: mancınıkçı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mancınıkçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3045
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منجنیقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1994