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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اسكی (eski, “old, ancient; secondhand”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
اسكیجی • (eskici)
- person who buys and sells all kinds of secondhand goods
- Synonym: قولتقجی (koltukcu)
- person who buys used clothes and shoes to trade
- cobbler, a person who repairs shoes
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eskici”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1486
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسكیجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 92
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scrutarius”, 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, Vienna, column 1525
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسكیجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 217–218
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسكیجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 112