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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From بورغو (burgu, “any boring instrument”) + ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun
بورغوجی • (burgucu)
- maker or seller of borers, drills, augers or gimlets
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burgucu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 702
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورغوجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395
- Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 1)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 61