ترزی

See also: ترزي and برزی

Ottoman Turkish

ترزی

Alternative forms

• درزی (derzi)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian درزی (darzi, “tailor, seamster”), itself from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dlcyk' /⁠darzīg⁠/, “tailor”).

Noun

ترزی • (terzi)

1. (colloquial) tailor, seamster, a person who sews clothes professionally

   Synonym: دیكیشجی (dikişci)

Derived terms

• ترزی خانه (terzi hane, “atelier”)
• ترزیلك (terzilik, “tailoring”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: terzi
• → Albanian: terzi
• → Arabic: تَرْزِيّ (tarziyy)
• → Armenian: թարզի (tʿarzi), թերզի (tʿerzi)
• → Bulgarian: терзи́я (terzíja)
• → Georgian: თერძი (terʒi)
• → Macedonian: терзија (terzija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: терзија

  Latin script: terzija

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “terzi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4762
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ترزی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 152a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ترزی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 361
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sartor”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1511
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ترزی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1149
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “terzi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ترزی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 532