یابانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یابان (yaban, “wilderness, wasteland; world of strangers”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

یابانجی • (yabancı)

stranger, a person whom one does not know, or is not an acquaintance
foreigner, outlander, alien, stranger, a person from another country

Descendants

Turkish: yabancı
→ Armenian: յապանճի (yapanči)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yabancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5146
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یابانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1348
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یابانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2178

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