سركهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From سركه (sirke, “vinegar”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
سركهجی • (sirkeci)
- vinegar maker or vendor, a person whose occupation is producing or selling vinegar
Derived terms
- سركهجی اسكلهسی (sirkeci iskelesi, “name of a landing wharf in Istanbul”)
Descendants
- Turkish: sirkeci
- → Armenian: սիրքէճի (sirkʻēči), ⇒ Սիրքեճյան (Sirkʻečyan)
- →⇒ Bulgarian: Сиркеджиев (Sirkedžiev), Сиркиджиев (Sirkidžiev)
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “سركه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 78
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sirkeci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4261
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سركهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 675
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سركهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1054