قندیلجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قندیل (kandil, “oil lamp”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قندیلجی • (kandilci)

1. maker or seller of oil lamps
   1. lampmaker
2. attendant who cares for lamps in a mosque

Descendants

• Turkish: kandilci
• →⇒ Armenian: Ղանդիլջյան (Ġandilǰyan)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قندیلجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 973
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قندیلجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1478