قنطارجی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From قنطار (kantar, “steelyard”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]قنطارجی • (kantarcı)
- maker or seller of steelyards or similar instruments
- weight-master, the officer responsible for weighing goods
Derived terms
[edit]- قنطارجیلق (kantarcılık, “the profession of a weight-master”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kantarcı
- → Armenian: խանթարճի (xantʻarči), կանթարջի (kantʻarǰi), ⇒ Գանթարճյան (Gantʻarčyan)
- → Romanian: cantaragiu
Further reading
[edit]- 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, , page 163