قایماقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قایماق (kaymak, “kaymak, clotted cream”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قایماقجی • (kaymakcı)

1. maker or seller of kaymak, a dairy product similar to clotted cream

Descendants

• Turkish: kaymakçı
• → Armenian: խայմախճի (xaymaxči), ⇒ Քայմաքճյան (Kʻaymakʻčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaymakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2498
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایماقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1429