دیشجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دیش (diş, “tooth”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

دیشجی • (dişci)

1. dentist, a medical doctor who specializes in dentistry

Descendants

• Turkish: dişçi
• → Armenian: տիշճի (tišči), դիշջի (dišǰi), ⇒ Տիշճյան (Tiščyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dişçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1244
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیشجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 598
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیشجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 936
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 2)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[3], volume 137, number 2, →DOI, page 92