شكرجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From شكر (şeker, “sugar; comfit, sugar-plum”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
شكرجی • (şekerci)
- confectioner, a dealer in confections
Descendants
- Turkish: şekerci
- → Armenian: շեքերճի (šekʿerči)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “شكرجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 731
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “شكرجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2841–2842
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “شكرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1132