پروكار

پروكار

Ottoman Turkish

پروكارلر

Etymology

From Greek περουκιέρης (peroukiéris), earlier πεῤῥουκιέρης (peῤῥoukiéris), from Venetian peruchièr (= Italian perrucchiere, parrucchiere).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɛɾuˈcɑr]

Noun

پروكار • (perukâr)

1. hairdresser, coiffeur

   Synonyms: بربر‎ (berber), صاچ كسن‎ (saç kesen)

2. barber

   Synonyms: بربر‎ (berber), صقال كسن‎ (sakal kesen)

Related terms

• پروقه‎ (peruka)
• پروقه‌جی‎ (perukacı, “perruquier, wigmaker”)

Descendants

• Turkish: perukâr (obsolete)
• → Armenian: փերուքեր (pʿerukʿer)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1951), “փէրուքէր”, in Ewropakan pʿoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), Vienna: Mxitʿarean tparan, page 156
• “перу̀ка”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1996, page 181