پالانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پالان (palan, “packsaddle”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix).

Noun

پالانجی • (palancı)

1. maker or seller of packsaddles

   Synonyms: پالاندوز (palanduz), سمرجی (semerci)

Descendants

• Turkish: palancı
• → Armenian: Փալանջյան (Pʻalanǰyan), Փալանճյան (Pʻalančyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “palancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3756
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پالانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 314
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پالانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 435