صیغیرتماج
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Ultimately from صیغیر (sığır, “bovine, ox”), with the same suffix found in دیلماج (dilmaç, “interpreter, translator”).
Noun
صیغیرتماج • (sığırtmaç)
- cattle-drover
- Synonym: بقار (bakkar)
Descendants
- Turkish: sığırtmaç
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “صیغیرتماج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 779
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sığırtmaç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صیغیرتماج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1200