زیتونجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From زیتون (zeytun, zeytin, “olive”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
زیتونجی • (zeytinci)
- grower or seller of olives
Descendants
- Turkish: zeytinci
- →⇒ Armenian: Զեյթունճյան (Zeytʿunčyan)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “zeytinci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5465
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “زیتونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 653
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “زیتونجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2497
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “زیتونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1022