قنطارجی

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قنطار (kantar, steelyard) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قنطارجی (kantarcı)

  1. maker or seller of steelyards or similar instruments
  2. weight-master, the officer responsible for weighing goods

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Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kantarcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2390
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قنطارجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 974
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قنطارجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1476
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 163