باصمه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بصمه‌جی (basmacı)

Etymology

From باصمه (basma, “printing; print”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

باصمه‌جی • (basmacı)

1. typographer, printer, one who makes prints or the operator of a printing press

Descendants

• Turkish: basmacı
• →⇒ Armenian: Բասմաջյան (Basmaǰyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “basmacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 400
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باصمه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 241
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Typographus”, 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 1708
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بصمه‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 839
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باصمه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 328