لوستروجی
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- լուսթրօճը (lustrocı) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
From لوسترو (lustro, lostro, “blacking, shoe polish”) + ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun
لوستروجی • (lustrocu or lostrocu) (definite accusative لوستروجییی (lustrocuyu, lostrocuyu), plural لوستروجیلر (lustrocular, lostrocular))
- shoeshiner, bootblack, shoeblack, a person who shines shoes
Descendants
- Turkish: lostracı
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “لوسترو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 707
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “lostracı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2980
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “لوستروجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1083
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لوستروجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1643