دومنجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دومن (dümen, “rudder”) +‎ ـجی (-ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

دومنجی • (dümenci)

  1. helmsman, the member of a ship's crew who is responsible for steering

Descendants
  • Turkish: dümenci
  • → Armenian: տիւմէնճի (tiwmēnči)
  • → Moroccan Arabic: دمانجي (dmānji)

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dümenci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1325
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دومنجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 592
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nauclerus”, 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 1121
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دومنجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2191
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دومنجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 928
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