بالقجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From بالق (balık, “fish”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
بالقجی • (balıkcı)
- fisherman, a person whose profession is catching fish
- fishmonger, a person whose profession is selling fish
Descendants
- Turkish: balıkçı
- → Armenian: պալըխճի (paləxči), բալըխչի (baləxčʿi)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بالقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 247
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Piscator”, 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 1303
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بالقجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 687–688
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بالقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335