شیشه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

شیشه‌جی

Etymology

From شیشه (şişe, “bottle; blown glass”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

شیشه‌جی • (şişeci)

1. glassblower, gaffer, glassmith, a person who inflates molten glass into a bubble with the aid of a blowpipe

Descendants

• Turkish: şişeci
• → Armenian: շիշէճի (šišēči), ⇒ Շիշեճյան (Šišečyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şişeci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4493
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شیشه‌جی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 293a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شیشه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 741
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lagenarius”, 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 909
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شیشه‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2900
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شیشه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1147