اوقجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اوق (ok, “arrow”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun
اوقجی • (okcu)
- bow maker, bowyer, fletcher, a person who manufactures or sells bows for use in archery
- Synonym: قواس (kavas)
Derived terms
- اوقجی اوغلی (okcu oğlu, “name of a tribe of Carmania”)
- اوقجی باشی (okcu başı, “kind of official”)
Descendants
- Turkish: okçu
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 176
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “okcu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3595
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 194
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 260