باصمه‌جی

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From باصمه (basma, printing; print) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

باصمه‌جی (basmacı)

  1. typographer, printer, one who makes prints or the operator of a printing press

Descendants

  • Turkish: basmacı
  • Armenian: Բասմաջյան (Basmaǰyan)
  • Romanian: basmangiu

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “basmacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 480
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باصمه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 241
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Typographus”, 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 1708
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بصمه‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 839
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باصمه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 328