مقصجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From مقص (makas, “scissors”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

مقصجی • (makascı)

  1. maker or seller of scissors

Descendants

  • Turkish: makasçı
  • →⇒ Armenian: Մագասճյան (Magasčyan), Մաքասճյան (Makʻasčyan)

Further reading

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقصجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1944
  • 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[2], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 173
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