شمعدانجی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From شمعدان (şemʼdan, “candlestick”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun edit
شمعدانجی • (şemʼdancı)
- candlelighter, a servant whose duty is to light up the candles inside a palace
Derived terms edit
- شمعدانجی باشی (şemʼdancı başı, “chief of these servants”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: şamdancı
- →⇒ Armenian: Շամտանճյան (Šamtančyan)
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şamdancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4425
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شمعدانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 734