سپتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From سپت‎ (sepet, “basket”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

سپتجی • (sepetci)

maker or seller of baskets
Synonym: زنبیلجی‎ (zembilci)

Descendants

Turkish: sepetçi
→⇒ Armenian: Սեպետչյան (Sepetčʿyan), Սեփետճյան (Sepʿetčyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sepetçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4147
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سپتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 665
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سپتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1037

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