پرده‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پرده‎ (perde, “curtain, veil”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

پرده‌جی • (perdeci)

  1. maker or seller of curtains or veils
  2. (historical) doorman at the royal palace

Descendants
  • Turkish: perdeci
  • → Armenian: փէրտէճի (pʿērtēči), ⇒ Փերտեճյան (Pʿertečyan)
  • → Romanian: perdegiu

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “perdeci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3824
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پرده‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 319
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پرده‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 442
  • Stachowski, Stanisław (1996), “perdeci”, in Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 2) (in German), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, page 132 marks the earliest known attestation date as 1881, but the Turkish word is attested in the Armenian script as փէրտէճի glossing Persian پرده دار‎ (parde-dâr) in Palatecʿi, Gēorg Dpir (1829), “փէրտէտար”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʿ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 624a
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