دیوارجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دیوار (duvar, “wall”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

دیوارجی • (duvarcı)

1. mason, bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick

Derived terms

• دیوارجیلك (duvarcılık, “masonry”)

Descendants

• Turkish: duvarcı
• → Armenian: տուվարճի (tuvarči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “duvarcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1314
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دیوارجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 240b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیوارجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 601
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Murarius”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1105
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دیوارجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2219
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیوارجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 940