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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From بویا (boya, “paint, dye”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
بویاجی • (boyacı)
- dyer, one who dyes cloth as an occupation
- Synonym: صباغ (sebbağ)
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boyacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 661
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بویاجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 136a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بویاجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 295
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tinctor”, 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 1674
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بویاجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 948
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بویاجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 412