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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كلاه (külah, “conical hat”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
كلاهجی • (külahcı)
- maker or seller of conical hats
- (figuratively) cheater, scammer, fraud
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “külahçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2887
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلاهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1033
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pileo”, 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 1300
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلاهجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3993
- Stachowski, Stanisław (1996) “külâhcı”, in Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 2) (in German), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, page 110