چیزمه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چزمه‌جی (çizmeci)

Etymology

From چیزمه (çizme, “boot”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

چیزمه‌جی • (çizmeci)

1. bootmaker, a maker or seller of boots or similar footwear

Descendants

• Turkish: çizmeci
• → Armenian: ճիզմէճի (čizmēči), ջըզմա̈ջի (ǰəzmäǰi), ⇒ Ճիզմեճյան (Čizmečyan)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: чизмеџија

  Latin script: čizmedžija

  • → Hungarian: csizmadia

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چیزمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 622
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çizmeci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1019
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چزمه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 720