جندره‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From جندره (cendere, “press, mangle, calender”) +‎ ـجی (cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

جندره‌جی • (cendereci)

  1. maker or user of presses, pressman
  2. (by extension) governor who tortures by the press

Descendants
  • Turkish: cendereci
  • → Armenian: Ճենտերեճյան (Čenterečyan)

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جندره‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1662
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جندره‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 682
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