مومجی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From موم (mum, “candle”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]مومجی • (mumcu)
- chandler, maker or seller of candles
- (formerly) matchlock-man, especially when employed as a bodyguard
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mum”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3303
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مومجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1250
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cerarius”, 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 170
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مومجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, columns 5037–5038
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مومجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2037