شریعتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شریعت (şeriʼat, “shari'a, Islamic law”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

شریعتجی • (şeriʼatcı)

(historical) the legal assistant of a Kazasker during the Ottoman Empire

Descendants

Turkish: şeriatçı
→ Armenian: շէրիաթճի (šēriatʻči)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şeriatçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4462
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شریعتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 726
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شریعتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1124

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