یابانجی
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From یابان (yaban, “wilderness, wasteland; world of strangers”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- 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[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1348
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یابانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2178