فائضجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From فائض (faʼiz, “interest”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

فائضجی • (faʼizci)

  1. usurer, loan shark, someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest

Descendants

  • Turkish: faizci

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.