تذكره‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• թէզքէրէճի (tezkereci), թէսքէրէճի (teskereci) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From تذكره (tezkere, “note; licence, permit; discharge papers”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

تذكره‌جی • (tezkereci)

1. clerk or officer who is in charge of writing notes, permits or other official documents
2. (historical) the name given to the private secretary of a vizier or grand vizier

Descendants

• Turkish: tezkereci
• → Armenian: թէզքէրէճի (tʻēzkʻērēči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tezkereci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4795
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تذكره‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 357
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تذكره‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 523