بویاجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بویا (boya, “paint, dye”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

بویاجی • (boyacı)

1. dyer, one who dyes cloth as an occupation

   Synonym: صباغ (sebbağ)

Derived terms

• بویاجی كوپی (boyacı küpü, “dyer's vat”)
• بویاجیلق (boyacılık, “the profession of a dyer”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: boyacı
• → Albanian: bojaxhi
• → Armenian: պոյաճի (poyači), ⇒ Armenian: Բոյաջյան (Boyaǰyan)
• → Greek: μπογιατζής (bogiatzís)
• → Macedonian: бојаџија (bojadžija)
• → Romanian: boiangiu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boyacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 661
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بویاجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 136a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بویاجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 295
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tinctor”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1674
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بویاجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 948
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بویاجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 412