aynacı
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آینهجی (aynacı, “mirror-maker”); equivalent to ayna (“mirror”) + -cı.
Noun
[edit]aynacı (definite accusative aynacıyı, plural aynacılar)
- mirror-maker, a manufacturer, dealer, or seller of mirrors, looking-glasses, or the like
- fortune-teller who tells fortune and sees future events through a mirror or looking-glass
- trickster, fraud, imposter, a person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain
- (nautical) person or lookout man who is responsible for looking through telescopes on ships
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[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aynacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 390