پرده‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پرده (perde, “curtain, veil”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

پرده‌جی • (perdeci)

1. maker or seller of curtains or veils
2. (historical) doorman at the royal palace

Descendants

• Turkish: perdeci
• → Armenian: փէրտէճի (pʻērtēči), ⇒ Փերտեճյան (Pʻertečyan)
• → Romanian: perdegiu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “perdeci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3824
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرده‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 319
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرده‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 442
• Stachowski, Stanisław (1996) “perdeci”, in Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 2) (in German), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, page 132 marks the earliest known attestation date as 1881, but the Turkish word is attested in the Armenian script as փէրտէճի (perdeci) glossing Persian پرده دار (parde-dâr) in Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “փէրտէտար”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 624a