پشتمالجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پشتمال (peştamal, “peshtemal, towel”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

پشتمالجی • (peştamalcı)

1. maker or seller of peshtemals

Descendants

• Turkish: peştamalcı
• →⇒ Armenian: Փեշտիմալճյան (Pʻeštimalčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “peştamalcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3837
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پشتمالجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 322
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پشتمالجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 449