اویمهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اویمه (oyma, “carving; sculpture; engraving”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
اویمهجی • (oymacı)
- maker or seller of carvings or sculptures
Descendants
- Turkish: oymacı
- → Armenian: օյմաճի (ōymači)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oymacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3656
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اویمهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 207
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اویمهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 275