لغمجی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From لغم (lağım, “underground tunnel; sewer”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]لغمجی • (lağımcı)
- miner, mineworker, a person who works in a mine and extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay or other minerals from the earth through mining
- Synonym: معدنجی (maʼdenci)
- sapper, combat engineer, an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, or building fortifications, bridges, and roads
- Synonym: قازمهجی (kazmacı)
- sewerman, a maker, repairer, or cleanser of drains, sewers and similar systems used to remove human waste and provide drainage
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “لغم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 702
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lağımcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2927
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لغمجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1079
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cunicularius”, 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 310
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لغمجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 4183
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لغمجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1635