دیكیشجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دیكیش (dikiş, “stitch”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

دیكیشجی • (dikişci)

tailor, seamster, a person who sews clothes professionally
Synonym: ترزی (terzi)

Descendants

Turkish: dikişçi

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dikişçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1215
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیكیشجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 600
Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “needle woman”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 359a

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