قفسجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قفس‎ (kafes, “cage; lattice”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قفسجی • (kafesci)

wireworker, one who manufactures articles from wire
maker or seller of birdcages or lattices

Descendants

Turkish: kafesçi
→ Armenian: խաֆէսճի (xafēsči), ⇒ Գաֆեսճյան (Gafesčyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kafesçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2328
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قفسجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 966
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قفسجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1467

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