دعوتجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From دعوت (daʼvet, “invitation, lathing”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
دعوتجی • (daʼvetci)
- inviter, someone who invites or a messenger sent with an invitation
Descendants
- Turkish: davetçi
- → Armenian: տավէթճի (tavētʻči)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “davetçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1114
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دعوتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 574
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دعوتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 905