تذهیبجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From تذهیب (tezhib, “gilding”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

تذهیبجی • (tezhibci)

1. gilder, a person whose occupation is to overlay things with gold

   Synonym: یالدزجی (yaldızcı)

Descendants

• Turkish: tezhipçi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tezhipçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 47955
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “gilder”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 218a