یاردمجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یاردم (yardım, “help, aid, succor”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

یاردمجی • (yardımcı)

1. helper, aide, assistant, auxiliary, a person who assists or helps someone else

   Synonyms: دستیار (destyar), معاون (muʼavin), ناصر (nâsır)

Derived terms

• یاردمجیلق (yardımcılık, “quality or act of a helper or assistant”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yardımcı
• → Armenian: եարտըմճի (eartəmči), յարդումջի (yardumǰi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yardımcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5221
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاردمجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1337
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Auxiliator”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 110
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاردمجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5537
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاردمجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2182