وزنه‌جی

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From وزنه (vezne, balance for testing coin) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

وزنه‌جی (vezneci)

  1. maker or seller of balances or gauges used for testing coin
  2. money-tester, a person who weighs coins to detect the fake ones
  3. teller, cashier, a clerk who receives and pays out money

Descendants

  • Turkish: vezneci
  • Armenian: Վեզնեճյան (Veznečyan)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vezneci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5116
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وزنه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1309
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Libripens”, 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 947
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وزنه‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5368
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وزنه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2136