غزتهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From غزته (gazeta, “newspaper, journal”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
غزتهجی • (gazetacı)
- journalist, gazetteer, one whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press
- newsagent, newsvendor, a person who runs a newsstand selling newspapers, journals, magazines, etc.
Derived terms
- غزتهجیلق (gazetacılık, “journalism”)
Descendants
- Turkish: gazeteci
- → Armenian: կազէթաճի (kazētʻači)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gazeteci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1660
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غزتهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 873
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “journalist”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 291a
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غزتهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1344