ادارهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اداره (idâre, “management; economy, thrift”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
ادارهجی • (idâreci)
- economizer, economist, one who manages domestic or other concerns with frugality, an extremely parsimonious or thrifty person
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اداره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 25
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “idareci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2092
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ادارهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 61
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ادارهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 48