خراسانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From خراسان (horasan, “Khorasan; sifted brickdust”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

خراسانجی • (horasancı)

1. maker or seller of sifted brickdust for use in the preparation of lime mortar

Descendants

• → Armenian: խօրասանճի (xōrasanči), ⇒ Խորասանճյան (Xorasančyan)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خراسانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 836