صیغیرتماج

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Ultimately from صیغیر (sığır, “bovine, ox”), with the same suffix found in دیلماج (dilmaç, “interpreter, translator”).

Noun

صیغیرتماج • (sığırtmaç)

1. cattle-drover

   Synonym: بقار (bakkar)

Descendants

• Turkish: sığırtmaç

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیغیرتماج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 779
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sığırtmaç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیغیرتماج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1200