كتابجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كتاب (kitab, “book”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كتابجی • (kitabcı)

1. bookseller, bibliopole
2. librarian who works for a personage of note

Derived terms

• كتابجیلق (kitabcılık, “the quality of a bookseller”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kitapçı

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كتابجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1011
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كتابجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 3867–3868
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كتابجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1526
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[4], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 169