رامپهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From رامپه (rampa, “grappling hook; boarding”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
رامپهجی • (rampacı)
- (nautical) boarder, a sailor attacking an enemy ship by boarding her, or one repelling such attempts by an enemy
Descendants
- Turkish: rampacı
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rampacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3937
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رامپهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 613