میمونجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From میمون (maymun, “monkey”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

میمونجی • (maymuncu)

  1. monkey man, a dealer in monkeys or exhibitor of monkeys

Descendants
  • →⇒ Armenian: Մայմունճեան (Maymunčean)

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میمونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1257
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میمونجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5079
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میمونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2057
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