سفرهجی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From سفره (sofra, “meal; tablecloth; tray”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun edit
سفرهجی • (sofracı)
- butler who has charge of the dinner table and carries out duties such as setting and clearing tables and distributing food
Derived terms edit
- سفرهجیلق (sofracılık, “quality and functions of a butler”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: sofracı
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sofracı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4278
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سفرهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 681
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سفرهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1062