كتابجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كتاب (kitab, “book”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
كتابجی • (kitabcı)
- bookseller, bibliopole
- librarian who works for a personage of note
Derived terms
- كتابجیلق (kitabcılık, “the quality of a bookseller”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kitapçı
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كتابجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1011
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كتابجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3867–3868
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كتابجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1526