كبریتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كبریت (kibrit, “sulfur; match”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كبریتجی • (kibritci)

1. matchmaker, a person who makes matchsticks

Descendants

• Turkish: kibritçi
• → Armenian: քիպրիթճի (kʻipritʻči), ⇒ Քիպրիթճյան (Kʻipritʻčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kibritçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2666
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كبریتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1009
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sulphurarius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1626
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كبریتجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3864
• Molino, Giovanni (1641) “zolforiere”, in Dittionario della lingua italiana turchesca, Rome: Gioiofi, column 494, spelling as kibritgi