تذكرهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- թէզքէրէճի (tezkereci), թէսքէրէճի (teskereci) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
From تذكره (tezkere, “note; licence, permit; discharge papers”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
تذكرهجی • (tezkereci)
- clerk or officer who is in charge of writing notes, permits or other official documents
- (historical) the name given to the private secretary of a vizier or grand vizier
Descendants
- Turkish: tezkereci
- → Armenian: թէզքէրէճի (tʻēzkʻērēči)
- → Romanian: tescheregiu
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tezkereci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4795
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تذكرهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 357
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تذكرهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 523