آوجی
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- ավճը (avcı) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
From آو (av, “hunting”) + ـجی (-cı).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [avˈd͡ʒɯ]
Noun
آوجی • (avcı)
Derived terms
- آوجیلق (avcılık, “the state of being a hunter”)
Descendants
- Turkish: avcı
- → Armenian: ավճի (avči), օ՛վչի (ṓvčʻi)
- → Bulgarian: авджи́я (avdžíja)
- → Laz: ავჯი (avci)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: а̀вџија
- Latin script: àvdžija
- → Tigre: ኣውጂ (ʾawǧi)
- → Ubykh: ауџы (awdẑə)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آوجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 40
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آوجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, columns 491–492
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آوجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 239
- Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 1)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis[4], volume 137, number 1, , page 53