پلاچقه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پلاچقه (plaçka, “loot, booty, spoil”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

پلاچقه‌جی • (plaçkacı)

1. plunderer, raider, pillager, looter, marauder, depredator, ransacker, spoiler, anyone who plunders or pillages

   Synonym: چاپولجی (çapulcu)

Descendants

• Turkish: plaçkacı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “plaçkacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3868
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلاچقه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 323