كرسته‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كرسته (kereste, “timber”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كرسته‌جی • (keresteci)

1. timber merchant, a maker of wooden boards and beams

Descendants

• Turkish: keresteci
• → Armenian: Քերեսթեճյան (Kʻerestʻečyan)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كرسته‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 3899–3900
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرسته‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1539