صابونجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From صابون (sabun, “soap”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun
صابونجی • (sabuncu)
- soapmaker, a manufacturer of soap
Descendants
- Turkish: sabuncu, Sabuncu
- → Armenian: սապոնճի (saponči), սապոնջի (saponǰi)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sabuncu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3998
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “صابونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 743
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Saponarius”, 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 1510
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “صابونجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2906
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صابونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150