فشنكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From فشنك (fişenk, “cartridge; firework”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

فشنكجی • (fişenkçi)

manufacturer or seller of cartridges or fireworks, pyrotechnist

Descendants

Turkish: fişekçi
→⇒ Armenian: Ֆիշենկճյան (Fišenkčyan)

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فشنكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 900
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فشنكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1386

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