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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اشك (eşek, “donkey”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
اشكجی • (eşekci)
- dealer in donkeys or donkey-driver
- Synonym: مركبجی (merkebci)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eşekci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1497
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Asinarius”, 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 90
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اشكجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 243
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 122