اكمكجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اكمك (ekmek, “bread”) + ـجی (-ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
اكمكجی • (ekmekci)
- baker, bread maker, breadmonger, person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items
- Synonym: فرونجی (furuncu, fırıncı)
Derived terms
- اكمكجی تباشیری (ekmekci tebeşiri, “baker's score”)
- اكمكجیلك (ekmekcilik, “bakery”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ekmekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1396
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اكمكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 130
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pistor”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1304
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اكمكجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, columns 359–360
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اكمكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 176