آینهجی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From آینه (ayna, “mirror”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]آینهجی • (aynacı)
- mirror-maker, a manufacturer, dealer, or seller of mirrors, looking-glasses, or the like
- fortune-teller who tells fortune and sees future events through a mirror or looking-glass
- trickster, fraud, imposter, a person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain
- (nautical) person or lookout man who is responsible for looking through telescopes on ships
Derived terms
[edit]- آینهجیلق (aynacılık, “quality and functions of a mirror-maker”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: aynacı
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آینه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 245
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aynacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 390
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آینهجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 96a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آینهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 44
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Circuitor”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 182
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آینهجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 617
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آینهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 311