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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
From بورك (börek, “pie, pastry”) + ـجی (-ci, -cü, occupational suffix).
Noun
بوركجی • (börekci)
- pastry chef, piemaker, a baker specialized in making pastries, pies, patties and tarts
Derived terms
- بوركجیلك (börekcilik, “profession of a pastry chef”)
Descendants
Further reading
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “börekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 676
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوركجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 284
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Artocrearum pistor”, 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) “بوركچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 915
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395
Etymology 2
From بورك (börk, “kind of conical cap”) + ـجی (-ci, -cü, occupational suffix).
Noun
بوركجی • (börkcü)
- capper, a maker or seller of caps, especially conical hats made of felt
Descendants
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