میمونجی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From میمون (maymun, “monkey”) + ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]میمونجی • (maymuncu)
- monkey man, a dealer in monkeys or exhibitor of monkeys
Descendants
[edit]- →⇒ Armenian: Մայմունճեան (Maymunčean)
Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میمونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1257
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میمونجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 5079
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میمونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2057