اوجاقجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اوجاق (ocak, “fireplace; chimney”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
اوجاقجی • (ocakcı)
- chimney sweep, a person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys.
Descendants
- Turkish: ocakçı
- → Armenian: (Constantinople) օճախճի (ōčaxči)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ocakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3582
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اوجاقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 176
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اوجاقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 238