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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قال (kal, “smelting, refining”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
قالجی • (kalcı)
- smelter, refiner, a person employed to do smelting or refining of metals
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 465
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2350
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قالجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 352a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قالجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 933
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Depurator”, 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 358
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قالجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3592
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1420