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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From چوقه (çoka, “baize, broadcloth, drape”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
چوقهجی • (çokacı)
- draper, a dealer, retailer, or wholesaler of cloth or textiles for clothing
- Synonym: بزاز (bezzaz)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çuhacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1055
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوقهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 480
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pannifex”, 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 1238
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوقهجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1681
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوقهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 738