مجیدیه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Ellipsis of the synonymous expressions سیم مجیدیه (sim mecidiye) and بیاض مجیدیه (beyaz mecidiye).

Noun

مجیدیه • (mecidiye)

1. (numismatics) medjidie, an Ottoman silver coin

Descendants

• Turkish: mecidiye
• → Albanian: ⇒ mexhite, (bejtexhinj poetry) mexhidje
• → Armenian: մէճիտիյէ (mēčitiyē), մա̈ջիդիյա̈ (mäǰidiyä)
• → Bulgarian: меджидие́ (medžidié), меджиди́я (medžidíja)
• → French: medjidié
  • → English: medjidie
• → Macedonian: меџидија (medžidija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: medžidíja / меџиди́ја

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مجیدیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1124
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مجیدی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1753