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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قلبور (kalbur, “sieve, riddle”) + ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun
قلبورجی • (kalburcu)
- maker or seller of sieves, riddles, strainers or cribbles
- siever, sifter, one who sieves or sifts
- Synonym: الكجی (elekci)
Descendants
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 -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 162