قنطارجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قنطار (kantar, “steelyard”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قنطارجی • (kantarcı)

  1. maker or seller of steelyards or similar instruments
  2. weight-master, the officer responsible for weighing goods

Derived terms

  • قنطارجیلق (kantarcılık, “the profession of a weight-master”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kantarcı
  • → Armenian: խանթարճի (xantʻarči), կանթարջի (kantʻarǰi), ⇒ Գանթարճյան (Gantʻarčyan)
  • → Romanian: cantaragiu

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kantarcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2390
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قنطارجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 974
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قنطارجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1476
  • 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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