قلبورجی

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قلبور (kalbur, sieve, riddle) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

قلبورجی (kalburcu)

  1. maker or seller of sieves, riddles, strainers or cribbles
  2. siever, sifter, one who sieves or sifts
    Synonym: الكجی (elekci)

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Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalburcu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2350
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلبورجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1450
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 162