ماندره‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ماندره (mandra, “pen, fold; dairy farm”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

ماندره‌جی • (mandracı)

dairy farmer, a farmer who keeps a herd of dairy cows for the production of milk

Descendants

Turkish: mandıracı

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mandıracı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3047
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ماندره‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1664

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