طاوقجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From طاوق (tavuk, “chicken, fowl”) + ـجی (-cu, “occupational suffix”).
Noun
طاوقجی • (tavukcu)
- chicken farmer, a farmer who keeps or works with chickens
Descendants
- Turkish: tavukçu
- → Armenian: թավուխճի (tʿavuxči), ⇒ Թավուքճյան (Tʿavukʿčyan)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tavukcu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4648
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طاوقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 798
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gallinarius”, 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 639
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “طاوقجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3079