سمرجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From سمر (semer, “packsaddle”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix).

Noun

سمرجی • (semerci)

1. maker or seller of packsaddles

   Synonyms: پالانجی (palancı), پالاندوز (palanduz)

Descendants

• Turkish: semerci
• →⇒ Armenian: Սեմերջյան (Semerǰyan)
• → Macedonian: самарџија (samardžija)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “semerci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4138
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سمرجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 691
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clitellarum confector”, 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 192
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سمرجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2671
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سمرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1077