آلتونجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آلتون (altın, altun, “gold”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

آلتونجی • (altıncı, altuncu)

goldminer, gold digger, goldsmith, someone who extracts, processes, or trades gold

Descendants

Turkish: altıncı

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “altıncı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 224
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلتونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 34

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