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Albanian
Etymology
By surface analysis, çerek (“coin of little value”) + -xhi. Possibly borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چیركجی (çeyrekçi), although that is only attested in the sense “pedlar of butcher's meat”, and may hence be an Albanian formation.
Noun
çerekçi m (plural çerekçinj, definite çerekçiu)
- (archaic) poor artisan, or a poor person in general
- Hypernym: zanatçi
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çerekçi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 108
- ^ Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çeyrekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 950
Further reading
- “çerekçi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 255
- Jungg, G. (1895) “cerekcii”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 17