قفسجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قفس (kafes, “cage; lattice”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قفسجی • (kafesci)

1. wireworker, one who manufactures articles from wire
2. maker or seller of birdcages or lattices

Descendants

• Turkish: kafesçi
• → Armenian: խաֆէսճի (xafēsči), ⇒ Գաֆեսճյան (Gafesčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kafesçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2328
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قفسجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 966
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قفسجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1467