دومنجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From دومن (dümen, “rudder”) + ـجی (-ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
دومنجی • (dümenci)
- helmsman, the member of a ship's crew who is responsible for steering
Descendants
- Turkish: dümenci
- → Armenian: տիւմէնճի (tiwmēnči)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dümenci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1325
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دومنجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 592
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Nauclerus”, 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 1121
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دومنجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2191
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دومنجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 928