قلمجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قلم (kalem, “reed”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قلمجی • (kalemci)

1. seller of reeds for pens

Descendants

• Turkish: kalemci
• →⇒ Armenian: Գալեմճյան (Galemčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalemci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2353
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلمجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1472