دعوتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دعوت (daʼvet, “invitation, lathing”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

دعوتجی • (daʼvetci)

1. inviter, someone who invites or a messenger sent with an invitation

Descendants

• Turkish: davetçi
• → Armenian: տավէթճի (tavētʻči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “davetçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1114
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دعوتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 574
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دعوتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 905