طاشجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From طاش (taş, “stone, rock”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

طاشجی • (taşcı)

1. stonecutter, stonemason, somebody who cuts, carves or dresses stone

   Synonym: حجار (haccar)

Derived terms

• طاشجی قلمی (taşcı kalemi, “chisel”)
• طاشجیلق (taşcılık, “stonemasonry”)

Descendants

• Turkish: taşçı
• → Armenian: թաշճի (tʻašči), ⇒ Թաշճյան (Tʻaščyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “taşçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4626
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طاشجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 791
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lapidarius”, 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 913
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طاشجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3068
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طاشجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1223