پروانهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From پروانه (pervane, “moth; propeller”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
پروانهجی • (pervaneci) (definite accusative پروانهجییی (pervaneciyi), plural پروانهجیلر (pervaneciler))
- (historical) sort of Lord Chancellor from whose office or chancery all sovereign mandates issue
Descendants
- Turkish: pervaneci
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “pervaneci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3832
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پروانهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 445