فنرجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From فنر (fener, “lanter; ligthhouse”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

فنرجی • (fenerci)

  1. maker or seller of lanterns
  2. lighthouse keeper, lighthouseman

Descendants
  • Turkish: fenerci
  • → Armenian: ֆենեռճի (feneṙči), ֆանարջի (fanarǰi), ⇒ Ֆանարջյան (Fanarǰyan)

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fenerci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1559
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Laternarius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 919
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فنرجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3551
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فنرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1397
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