بادانه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • بادناجی (badanacı)

Etymology

From بادانه (badana, whitewash, limewash) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

بادانه‌جی • (badanacı)

  1. whitewasher, one who use a substance made from lime and chalk to paint walls and fences white

Derived terms

  • بادانه‌جیلق (badanacılık, quality and functions of a whitewasher)

Descendants

  • Turkish: badanacı
  • Armenian: պատանաճի (patanači)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “badanacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 418
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بادانه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Albarius”, 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[2], Vienna, column 46
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بادناجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 640
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بادانه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 317