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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From جواهر (cevâhir, “jewels; gems, gemstones”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
جواهرجی • (cevâhirci) (definite accusative جواهرجییی (cevâhirciyi), plural جواهرجیلر (cevâhirciler))
- lapidary, gemsmith, gemwright, a person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones
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Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جواهر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 541
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cevahirci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 784
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جواهرجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 190a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جواهرجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 449
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gemmarius”, 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 643
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جواهرجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1671
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جواهرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 686