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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یاغ (yağ, “oil, butter, grease”) + ـجی (-cı).
Noun
یاغجی • (yağcı)
- dealer in oil, grease, ointment, etc.
- person who lubricates machines
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yağcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5154
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاغجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1340
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Olearius”, 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 119
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاغجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 5545–5546
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاغجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2187