سفره‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From سفره (sofra, “meal; tablecloth; tray”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

سفره‌جی • (sofracı)

1. butler who has charge of the dinner table and carries out duties such as setting and clearing tables and distributing food

Derived terms

• سفره‌جیلق (sofracılık, “quality and functions of a butler”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sofracı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sofracı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4278
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سفره‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 681
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سفره‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1062