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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قاشیق (kaşık, “spoon”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
قاشیقجی • (kaşıkcı)
- spoonmaker, a manufacturer of spoons
- (figuratively) glutton, gourmand, big eater
- Synonym: اوبور (obur)
Derived terms
- قاشیقجی آوردی (kaşıkcı avurdu, “grimace of disappointment”)
- قاشیقجی الماسی (kaşıkcı elması, “the largest diamond in the Ottoman regalia”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaşıkçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2464
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاشیقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 928
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاشقجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3584
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاشیقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1418