صباحجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From صباح (sabah, “morning”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
صباحجی • (sabahcı)
- early bird, early riser, morning person, a person who wakes up, without difficulty, early each morning
- Synonym: اركنجی (erkenci)
Descendants
- Turkish: sabahçı
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sabahçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3993
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صباحجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1165