صنعتكار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Compound of صنعت (sanʼat, “art, trade, craft”) +‎ كار (kâr, “work, job, occupation”). Compare Azerbaijani sənətkar, Northern Kurdish sinetkar, Uyghur سەنئەتكار (sen'etkar) and Uzbek san'atkor for similar formations.

Noun

صنعتكار • (sanʼatkâr) (definitive accusative صنعتكاری (sanʼatkârı), plural صنعتكارلر (sanʼatkârlar))

1. artisan, craftsman, a person who creates objects partly or entirely by hand

   Synonym: صانع (saniʼ)

2. artist, a person who creates art as an occupation, like a sculptor or painter

Derived terms

• صنعتكارانه (sanʼatkârane, “artistically”)
• صنعتكارلق (sanʼatkârlık, “artistry; artisanry”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sanatkâr

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sanatkâr”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4054
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “san'atkâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1102
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صنعتكار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 768
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Artifex”, 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, Vienna, column 88
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صنعتكار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2993
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صنعتكار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1187