Also -ié. [Turkish ḍabtiyeh, f. Arab. ḍabt administration, regulation.] A Turkish policeman.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 100. A young Turkish Zaptié, or policeman.
1878. trans. F. von Löher’s Cyprus, xxi. 177. A wretched coffee-house, which was full of zaptiehs, who were quartered here.
