قندیلجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قندیل (kandil, “oil lamp”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قندیلجی • (kandilci)

  1. maker or seller of oil lamps
    1. lampmaker
  2. attendant who cares for lamps in a mosque

Descendants

  • Turkish: kandilci
  • →⇒ Armenian: Ղանդիլջյան (Ġandilǰyan)

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قندیلجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 973
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قندیلجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1478
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎[3], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 163
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