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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قفس (kafes, “cage; lattice”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
قفسجی • (kafesci)
- wireworker, one who manufactures articles from wire
- maker or seller of birdcages or lattices
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kafesçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2328
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قفسجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 966
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قفسجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1467