ساطورجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ساطور‎ (satır, “cleaver, butcher's knife”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

ساطورجی • (satırcı)

maker or seller of butcher knives
butcher's man who cuts up carcasses

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ساطورجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 658
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ساطورجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1028

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