قنطارجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قنطار‎ (kantar, “steelyard”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قنطارجی • (kantarcı)

maker or seller of steelyards or similar instruments
weight-master, the officer responsible for weighing goods

Derived terms

قنطارجیلق‎ (kantarcılık, “the profession of a weight-master”)

Descendants

Turkish: kantarcı
→ Armenian: խանթարճի (xantʿarči), կանթարջի (kantʿarǰi), ⇒ Գանթարճյան (Gantʿarčyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kantarcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2390
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قنطارجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 974
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قنطارجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1476

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