چاپولجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چاپول (çapul, “loot, booty, spoil”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

چاپولجی • (çapulcu)

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

   Synonym: پلاچقه‌جی (plaçkacı)

Descendants

• Turkish: çapulcu

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چاپول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 553
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çapulcu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 887
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاپولجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 456
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاپولجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 699