تمغاجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From تمغا (tamga, “stamp; mark”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

تمغاجی • (tamgacı)

1. stamper, a clerk or official whose duty is to apply a stamp to a document

Descendants

• Turkish: damgacı
• → Middle Armenian: թամղաճի (tʻamġači), թամղաչի (tʻamġačʻi)
  • Armenian: տամղաճի (tamġači), ⇒ Տամկաճյան (Tamkačyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “damgacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1093
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تمغاجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 402
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تمغاجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 593