صیواجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صیوا (sıva, “plaster, stucco, render”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

صیواجی • (sıvacı)

1. plasterer, stuccoer, pargeter, a person whose occupation is to apply plaster or stucco to the walls

   Synonym: ماله‌جی (malacı)

Derived terms

• صیواجیلق (sıvacılık, “quality and functions of a plasterer”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sıvacı
• → Albanian: suvaxhi
• → Armenian: սըվաճի (səvači), սվախչի (svaxčʻi), ⇒ Սվաճյան (Svačyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sıvacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4220
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیواجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 781
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیواجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1203