جامجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From جام (cam, “glass”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

جامجی • (camcı)

1. glazier, a craftsman who works with glass

Derived terms

• جامجی معجونی (camcı maʼcunu, “glazier's putty”)

Descendants

• Turkish: camcı
• → Albanian: xhamaxhi
• → Armenian: ճամճի (čamči), ⇒ Ճամճյան (Čamčyan)
• → Romanian: geamgiu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “camcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 747
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جامجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 430
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جامجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 636