كرستهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كرسته (kereste, “timber”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
كرستهجی • (keresteci)
- timber merchant, a maker of wooden boards and beams
Descendants
- Turkish: keresteci
- → Armenian: Քերեսթեճյան (Kʿerestʿečyan)
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كرستهجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3899–3900
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كرستهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1539