ییلانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ییلان (yılan, “snake”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

ییلانجی • (yılancı)

snake-catcher, snake-tamer

Descendants

Turkish: yılancı

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yılancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4147
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییلانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2224

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