اوجاقجی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From اوجاق (ocak, “fireplace; chimney”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]اوجاقجی • (ocakcı)
- chimney sweep, a person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys.
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: ocakçı
- → Armenian: (Constantinople) օճախճի (ōčaxči)
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ocakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3582
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوجاقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 176
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوجاقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 238