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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قنطار (kantar, “steelyard”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
قنطارجی • (kantarcı)
- maker or seller of steelyards or similar instruments
- weight-master, the officer responsible for weighing goods
Derived terms
- قنطارجیلق (kantarcılık, “the profession of a weight-master”)
Descendants
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 -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 163