اسكیجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اسكی (eski, “old, ancient; secondhand”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اسكیجی • (eskici)

1. person who buys and sells all kinds of secondhand goods

   Synonym: قولتقجی (koltukcu)

2. person who buys used clothes and shoes to trade
3. cobbler, a person who repairs shoes

Descendants

• Turkish: eskici

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eskici”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1486
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسكیجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 92
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scrutarius”, 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 1525
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسكیجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 217–218
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسكیجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 112