طرپانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From طرپان (tırpan, “scythe”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

طرپانجی • (tırpancı)

1. maker or seller of scythes
2. mower, a person who cuts grass

Descendants

• Turkish: tırpancı
• →⇒ Armenian: Թրփանճյան (Tʻrpʻančyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tırpancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4816
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طرپانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 802
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fœniseca”, 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 597
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طرپانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3095
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طرپانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1236