جندره‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From جندره (cendere, “press, mangle, calender”) +‎ ـجی (cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

جندره‌جی • (cendereci)

1. maker or user of presses, pressman
2. (by extension) governor who tortures by the press

Descendants

• Turkish: cendereci
• → Armenian: Ճենտերեճյան (Čenterečyan)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جندره‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1662
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جندره‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 682