شكرجی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From شكر (şeker, “sugar; comfit, sugar-plum”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]شكرجی • (şekerci)
- confectioner, a maker or seller of confections and other sweet food items
- Synonym: حلواجی (helvacı)
Derived terms
[edit]- شكرجی دكانی (şekerci dükkânı, “confectionery, sweetshop”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şekerci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4451
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شكرجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 289a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شكرجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 731
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sacchari venditor”, 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[3], Vienna, column 1499
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شكرجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, columns 2841–2842
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شكرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1132