Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From زنبیل (zembil, basket) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

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زنبیلجی (zembilci)

  1. maker or seller of baskets
    Synonym: سپتجی (sepetci)

Further reading

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زنبیلجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 648
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corbis”, 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 287
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زنبیلجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2471