كرسته‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كرسته‎ (kereste, “timber”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كرسته‌جی • (keresteci)

timber merchant, a maker of wooden boards and beams

Descendants

Turkish: keresteci
→ Armenian: Քերեսթեճյան (Kʿerestʿečyan)

Further reading

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كرسته‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3899–3900
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كرسته‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1539

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