دوكمهجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دوكمه (dökme, “cast, poured, molded”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

دوكمهجی • (dökmeci)

founder, especially a brass-founder

Descendants

Turkish: dökmeci
→ Armenian: թոքմաջի (tʻokʻmaǰi), ⇒ Թոքմաջյան (Tʻokʻmaǰyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dökmeci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1284
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوكمهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 590
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوكمهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 925

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