قفتانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قفتان (kaftan, “kaftan, robe”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قفتانجی • (kaftancı)

1. one who has charge over the robes of a grandee

Descendants

• Turkish: kaftancı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaftancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2329
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قفتانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 966
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قفتانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1467