اسكیجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اسكی (eski, “old, ancient; secondhand”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
اسكیجی • (eskici)
- person who buys and sells all kinds of secondhand goods
- person who buys used clothes and shoes to trade
- cobbler, a person who repairs shoes
Descendants
- Turkish: eskici
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “eskici”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1486
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اسكیجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 92
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Scrutarius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1525
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اسكیجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 217–218
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اسكیجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 112