پشتمالجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From پشتمال (peştamal, “peshtemal, towel”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
پشتمالجی • (peştamalcı)
- maker or seller of peshtemals
Descendants
- Turkish: peştamalcı
- →⇒ Armenian: Փեշտիմալճյան (Pʿeštimalčyan)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “peştamalcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3837
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پشتمالجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 322
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پشتمالجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 449