فنارجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• فنرجی (fenerci)

Etymology

From فنار (fenar, fener, “lantern; ligthhouse”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

فنارجی • (fenarcı or fenerci)

1. maker or seller of lanterns, street lamps or similar objects used to illuminate the surroundings
2. lighthouse keeper, lighthouseman, a person who lives in a lighthouse and tends the light

Derived terms

• فنارجی تلی (fenarcı teli, fenerci teli, “thin wire on which the waxed-cloth of lanterns is stretched”)

Descendants

• Turkish: fenerci
• → Armenian: ֆէնէրճի (fēnērči), ֆէնէռճի (fēnēṙči), ֆա̈նա̈րջի (fänärǰi), ⇒ Ֆանարջյան (Fanarǰyan)
• → Romanian: fanaragiu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fenerci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1559
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فنارجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1397