Where does “پلاچقه‌جی” come from?

پلاچقه‌جی (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish ـجی, from Proto-Turkic -či — Profession suffix.

پلاچقه‌جی (Ottoman Turkish): plunderer, raider, pillager, looter, marauder, depredator, ransacker, spoiler, anyone who plunders or pillages

Definitions

  1. plunderer, raider, pillager, looter, marauder, depredator, ransacker, spoiler, anyone who plunders or pillages

Ancestry of “پلاچقه‌جی”, step by step

پلاچقه‌جی traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ottoman Turkish ـجی

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishـجیoccupational suffix
2Proto-Turkic-čiProfession suffix

via Ottoman Turkish پلاچقه

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishپلاچقهloot, booty, spoil, plunder, goods seized from an enemy with violence
2Albanianplaçkëitem of household goods and furniture
Every word from Proto-Turkic -či →Every word from Ottoman Turkish ـجی →