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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
From كورك (kürek, “oar; shovel”) + ـجی (-ci, -cü, occupational suffix).
Noun
كوركجی • (kürekci)
- rower, oarsman, a person who rows a boat, either alone or with others
- maker or seller of shovels, peels and any other similar instruments
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kürekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2902
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Remex”, 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 1458
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوركچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4064
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1587
- 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 171
Etymology 2
From كورك (kürk, “fur”) + ـجی (-cı, -cü, occupational suffix).
Noun
كوركجی • (kürkcü)
- furrier, a person who sells, makes, repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in clothing made of fur
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kürkçü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2904
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوركجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1049
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pellio”, 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 1261
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوركچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4064
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1587
- 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 171