زیتونجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From زیتون (zeytun, zeytin, “olive”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

زیتونجی • (zeytuncu, zeytinci)

1. grower or seller of olives

Descendants

• Turkish: zeytinci
• →⇒ Armenian: Զեյթունճյան (Zeytʻunčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zeytinci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5465
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زیتونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 653
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زیتونجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2497
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زیتونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1022