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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From صیوا (sıva, “plaster, stucco, render”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
صیواجی • (sıvacı)
- plasterer, stuccoer, pargeter, a person whose occupation is to apply plaster or stucco to the walls
- Synonym: مالهجی (malacı)
Derived terms
- صیواجیلق (sıvacılık, “quality and functions of a plasterer”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sıvacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4220
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیواجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 781
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیواجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1203