كاغدجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

كاغدجی • (kâğıdcı)

paper worker, a person who makes or sells paper
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, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1006
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كاغدجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1519

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