لطیفه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From لطیفه (latife, “joke, prank, jest”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

لطیفه‌جی • (latifeci)

1. joker, prankster, jester, one who habitually makes jokes, pranks, or jests

   Synonym: شقاجی (şakacı)

Descendants

• Turkish: latifeci
• → Armenian: լաթիֆէճի (latʻifēči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “latifeci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2943
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لطیفه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1078
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لطیفه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1633