دوكمهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From دوكمه (dökme, “cast, poured, molded”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
دوكمهجی • (dökmeci)
- founder, especially a brass-founder
Descendants
- Turkish: dökmeci
- → Armenian: թոքմաջի (tʿokʿmaǰi), ⇒ Թոքմաջյան (Tʿokʿmaǰyan)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dökmeci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1284
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دوكمهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 590
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دوكمهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 925