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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كتاب (kitab, “book”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
كتابجی • (kitabcı)
- bookseller, bibliopole
- librarian who works for a personage of note
Derived terms
- كتابجیلق (kitabcılık, “the quality of a bookseller”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كتابجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1011
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كتابجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3867–3868
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كتابجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1526
- 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 169