پنیرجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پنیر (penir, “cheese”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

پنیرجی • (penirci)

1. cheesemaker, cheesemonger, a maker or seller of cheese

Descendants

• Turkish: peynirci
• →⇒ Armenian: Փենիրճյան (Pʻenirčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “peynirci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3841
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “casei venditor”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[1], Vienna, column 157
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “cheesemonger”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 74b