دیكیشجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دیكیش (dikiş, “stitch”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

دیكیشجی • (dikişci)

1. tailor, seamster, a person who sews clothes professionally

   Synonym: ترزی (terzi)

Descendants

• Turkish: dikişçi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dikişçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1215
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیكیشجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 600
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “needle woman”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 359a