نشانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From نشان (nişan, “sign, mark, target”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

نشانجی • (nişancı)

1. marksman, sharpshooter, a person skilled at hitting targets
2. former title of an officer of the Ottoman Government, whose duty is to inscribe the Sultan's imperial cypher over all imperial letters-patent.

Descendants

• Turkish: nişancı
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨਚੀ (niśāncī)

  Shahmukhi script: نشانجی (niśāncī)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nişancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3553
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نشانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1275
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نشانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 5181
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نشانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2084