زنبیلجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

زنبیلجی • (zembilci)

1. maker or seller of baskets

   Synonym: سپتجی (sepetci)

Further reading

• 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