قنطارجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قنطار (kantar, “steelyard”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قنطارجی • (kantarcı)

1. maker or seller of steelyards or similar instruments
2. weight-master, the officer responsible for weighing goods

Derived terms

• قنطارجیلق (kantarcılık, “the profession of a weight-master”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kantarcı
• → Armenian: խանթարճի (xantʻarči), կանթարջի (kantʻarǰi), ⇒ Գանթարճյան (Gantʻarčyan)
• → Romanian: cantaragiu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kantarcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2390
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قنطارجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 974
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قنطارجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1476
• 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^[3], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 163