مجیدیه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Ellipsis of the synonymous expressions سیم مجیدیه (sim mecidiye) and بیاض مجیدیه (beyaz mecidiye).

Noun

مجیدیه • (mecidiye)

(numismatics) medjidie, an Ottoman silver coin

Descendants

Turkish: mecidiye
→ Albanian: ⇒ mexhite, (bejtexhinj poetry) mexhidje
→ Armenian: մէճիտիյէ (mēčitiyē), մա̈ջիդիյա̈ (mäǰidiyä)
→ Bulgarian: меджидие́ (medžidié), меджиди́я (medžidíja)
→ French: medjidié
- → English: medjidie
→ Macedonian: меџидија (medžidija)
→ Serbo-Croatian: medžidíja／меџиди́ја

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مجیدیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1124
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مجیدی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1753

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