قندیلجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قندیل (kandil, “oil lamp”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قندیلجی • (kandilci)

maker or seller of oil lamps
1. lampmaker
attendant who cares for lamps in a mosque

Descendants

Turkish: kandilci
→⇒ Armenian: Ղանդիլջյան (Ġandilǰyan)

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قندیلجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 973
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قندیلجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1478

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