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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From فنر (fener, “lanter; ligthhouse”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
فنرجی • (fenerci)
- maker or seller of lanterns
- lighthouse keeper, lighthouseman
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fenerci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1559
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Laternarius”, 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 919
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فنرجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3551
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فنرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1397