غزته‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From غزته (gazeta, “newspaper, journal”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

غزته‌جی • (gazetacı)

1. journalist, gazetteer, one whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press
2. newsagent, newsvendor, a person who runs a newsstand selling newspapers, journals, magazines, etc.

Derived terms

• غزته‌جیلق (gazetacılık, “journalism”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gazeteci
• → Armenian: կազէթաճի (kazētʻači)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gazeteci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1660
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غزته‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 873
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “journalist”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 291a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غزته‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1344