ساطورجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ساطور (satır, “cleaver, butcher's knife”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

ساطورجی • (satırcı)

1. maker or seller of butcher knives
2. butcher's man who cuts up carcasses

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ساطورجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 658
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ساطورجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1028