شمعدانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شمعدان (şemʼdan, “candlestick”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

شمعدانجی • (şemʼdancı)

1. candlelighter, a servant whose duty is to light up the candles inside a palace

Derived terms

• شمعدانجی باشی (şemʼdancı başı, “chief of these servants”)

Descendants

• Turkish: şamdancı
• →⇒ Armenian: Շամտանճյան (Šamtančyan)

Further reading

• 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