مقصجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From مقص (makas, “scissors”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
مقصجی • (makascı)
- maker or seller of scissors
Descendants
- Turkish: makasçı
- →⇒ Armenian: Մագասճյան (Magasčyan), Մաքասճյան (Makʿasčyan)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “makasçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3027
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مقصجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1946