مقصجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From مقص‎ (makas, “scissors”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

مقصجی • (makascı)

maker or seller of scissors

Descendants

Turkish: makasçı
→⇒ Armenian: Մագասճյան (Magasčyan), Մաքասճյան (Makʿasčyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “makasçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3027
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مقصجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1946

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