یمنیجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یمنی (yemeni, “handpainted pocket handkerchief; light shoe with a short heel”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

یمنیجی • (yemenici)

1. maker or seller of handpainted pocket handkerchiefs
2. maker or seller of light men's shoes with a short heel

Descendants

• Turkish: yemenici
• → Armenian: եէմէնիճի (eēmēniči), ⇒ Եմենիճյան (Emeničyan)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “یمنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 886
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yemenici”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5284
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یمنیجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1359