روزنامهجی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From روزنامه (ruzname, “calendar; daybook”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]روزنامهجی • (ruznameci)
- calendarist, a person who contrives, makes or sells calendars
- bookkeeper, accountant, a person responsible for keeping daybooks
- Synonym: حسابجی (hisabcı) (accountant)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: ruznameci
Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “روزنامهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 631
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Chronographus”, 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 178
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “روزنامهجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2382
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “روزنامهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 993