كبریتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كبریت (kibrit, “sulfur; match”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كبریتجی • (kibritci)

  1. matchmaker, a person who makes matchsticks

Descendants
  • Turkish: kibritçi
  • → Armenian: քիպրիթճի (kʻipritʻči), ⇒ Քիպրիթճյան (Kʻipritʻčyan)

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kibritçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2666
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كبریتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1009
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sulphurarius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1626
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كبریتجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3864
  • Molino, Giovanni (1641) “zolforiere”, in Dittionario della lingua italiana turchesca, Rome: Gioiofi, column 494, spelling as kibritgi
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