دكانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دكان (dükkân, “store, shop”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

دكانجی • (dükkâncı)

1. storekeeper, shopkeeper, one who runs a shop, either the owner or manager

   Synonym: مغازه‌جی (mağazacı)

Descendants

• Turkish: dükkâncı
• → Albanian: dyqanxhi
• → Romanian: dughengiu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dükkâncı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1323
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دكانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 576
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tabernarius”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1645
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دكانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2105
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دكانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 908