مالهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From
ماله
(
mala
,
“
trowel
”
)
+
ـجی
(
-cı, -ci
,
occupational suffix
)
.
Noun
مالهجی
• (
malacı
)
maker
or
seller
of
trowels
plasterer
, a
person
who plasters
walls
Synonym:
صیواجی
(
sıvacı
)
Descendants
→
⇒
Armenian:
Մալաջյան
(
Malaǰyan
)
Further reading
Redhouse, James W.
(
1890
) “
مالهجی
”, in
A Turkish and English Lexicon
[1]
, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian,
page
1662