صوجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From صو (su, “water”) + ـجی (-cu, “maker or seller”).
Noun
صوجی • (sucu)
- waterman, water carrier, someone who distributes or supplies water for a living
- Synonym: سقا (saka)
Descendants
- Turkish: sucu
- → Armenian: սուճի (suči), սուչի (sučʿi), սուջի (suǰi), ⇒ Սուջյան (Suǰyan), Սուճյան (Sučyan)
- → English: Sujyan, Sudjian, Sujian, Suddjian, Sudjyan
- → French: Soudjian
- → Russian: Суджя́н (Sudžján)
- → Turkish: Suciyan, Sucuyan
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sucu1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4343
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صوجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190