پوسته‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پوسته (posta, “mail, post”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

پوسته‌جی • (postacı)

mailman, postman, someone who delivers or collects mail or post

Descendants

Turkish: postacı
→⇒ Armenian: Փոստաճյան (Pʻostačyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “postacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3885
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پوسته‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 327
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پوسته‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 458

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