بالمومجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بالمومی (balmumu, “beeswax”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

بالمومجی • (balmumcu)

wax-chandler

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالمومجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335

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