حجامتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From حجامت (hacâmet, hacâmat, “cupping”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

حجامتجی • (hacâmetci or hacâmatcı)

1. cupper, scarifier, someone who performs the operation of cupping or scarification

Descendants

• Turkish: hacamatçı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hacamatçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1826
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حجامتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 498
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حجامتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 765