كرسته‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كرسته (kereste, “timber”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كرسته‌جی • (keresteci)

  1. timber merchant, a maker of wooden boards and beams

Descendants
  • Turkish: keresteci
  • → Armenian: Քերեսթեճյան (Kʻerestʻečyan)

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرسته‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 3899–3900
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرسته‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1539
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