پلاچقهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From پلاچقه (plaçka, “loot, booty, spoil”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
پلاچقهجی • (plaçkacı)
- plunderer, raider, pillager, looter, marauder, depredator, ransacker, spoiler, anyone who plunders or pillages
- Synonym: چاپولجی (çapulcu)
Descendants
- Turkish: plaçkacı
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “plaçkacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3868
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلاچقهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 323