كاغدجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كاغد (kâğıd, “paper”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كاغدجی • (kâğıdcı)

1. paper worker, a person who makes or sells paper
2. stationer, a person or business that sells stationery

Derived terms

• كاغدجی باشی (kâğıdcı başı, “warden of the guild of stationers”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kâğıtçı
• →⇒ Armenian: Քեաղըտճեան (Kʻeaġətčean)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kâğıtçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2333
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كاغدجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1006
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كاغدجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1519