صابونجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صابون (sabun, “soap”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

صابونجی • (sabuncu)

1. soapmaker, a manufacturer of soap

Descendants

• Turkish: sabuncu, Sabuncu
• → Armenian: սապոնճի (saponči), սապոնջի (saponǰi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sabuncu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3998
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صابونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 743
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Saponarius”, 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 1510
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صابونجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2906
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صابونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150