مقصجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From مقص (makas, “scissors”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

مقصجی • (makascı)

1. maker or seller of scissors

Descendants

• Turkish: makasçı
• →⇒ Armenian: Մագասճյան (Magasčyan), Մաքասճյան (Makʻasčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “makasçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3027
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقصجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1944