قالایجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قالای (kalay, tin) + ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix).

Noun

قالایجی • (kalaycı)

  1. tinner, tinsmith, a person who makes things with tin

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: kalaycı
  • Armenian: խալայճի (xalayči), Խալայճյան (Xalayčyan), Խալայջյան (Xalayǰyan), Կալայջյան (Kalayǰyan), Քալայջյան (Kʻalayǰyan), Քալայճյան (Kʻalayčyan), Գալայճյան (Galayčyan), Ղալայչյան (Ġalayčʻyan)
  • Bulgarian: калайджи́я (kalajdžíja), каладжи́я (kaladžíja)
  • Georgian: კალაიჯიშვილი (ḳalaiǯišvili)
  • Greek: καλαϊτζής (kalaïtzís)
  • Laz: კალაჲჯი (ǩalayci)
  • Macedonian: калајџија (kalajdžija)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: кала̀јџија, кала́јџија
    Latin script: kalàjdžija, kalájdžija

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalaycı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2349
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قالایجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 932
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالایجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1420
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 162
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