میمونجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From میمون (maymun, “monkey”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

میمونجی • (maymuncu)

1. monkey man, a dealer in monkeys or exhibitor of monkeys

Descendants

• →⇒ Armenian: Մայմունճեան (Maymunčean)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میمونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1257
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میمونجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 5079
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میمونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2057