فنرجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From فنر (fener, “lanter; ligthhouse”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

فنرجی • (fenerci)

1. maker or seller of lanterns
2. lighthouse keeper, lighthouseman

Descendants

• Turkish: fenerci
• → Armenian: ֆենեռճի (feneṙči), ֆանարջի (fanarǰi), ⇒ Ֆանարջյան (Fanarǰyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fenerci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1559
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Laternarius”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 919
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فنرجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3551
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فنرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1397