یالدزجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یالدیزجی (yaldızcı)

Etymology

From یالدز (yaldız, “gilding”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

یالدزجی • (yaldızcı)

1. gilder, a person whose occupation is to overlay things with gold

   Synonym: تذهیبجی (tezhibci)

Descendants

• Turkish: yaldızcı
• → Armenian: եալտըզճի (ealtəzči), յալդուզջի (yalduzǰi), ⇒ Յալտըզճյան (Yaltəzčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaldızcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5176
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یالدیزجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1343
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “gilder”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 218a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالدزجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2191