قزانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قزان (kazan, “cauldron, kettle; boiler”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قزانجی • (kazancı)

1. maker or seller of cauldrons, kettles and boilers

Derived terms

• قزانجیلق (kazancılık, “the profession of a cauldron maker”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kazancı
• → Albanian: kazanxhi
• → Armenian: խազանճի (xazanči), կազանչի (kazančʻi), ղազանչի (ġazančʻi)
• → Romanian: cazangiu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kazancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2506
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قزانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 959
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Aerarius”, 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 35
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قزانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3688
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قزانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1453
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[5], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 166