فوچی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • فیچی (fıçı)

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek βούττις (boúttis, barrel, cask), itself from Ancient Greek βοῦττῐς (boûttĭs).

Noun

فوچی • (fuçı or fıçı) (definite accusative فوچیی (fuçıyı, fıçıyı), plural فوچیلر (fuçılar, fıçılar))

  1. barrel, cask, a round vessel made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends
    Synonym: برمیل (bermil)
  2. barrel, the quantity which constitutes a full barrel or cask, used as a unit of measure

Derived terms

  • سركه فوچیسی (sirke fıçısı, vinegar barrel)
  • شراب فوچیسی (şarab fıçısı, wine barrel)
  • فوچی اوزومی (fıçı üzümü, grapes sold in barrels)
  • فوچی تخته‌سی (fıçı tahtası, stave of a barrel)
  • فوچی دیبی (fıçı dibi, grounds of a cask of wine)
  • فوچی شكری (fıçı şekeri, sugar in hogheads)
  • فوچی طپه‌سی (fıçı tapası, plug of a barrel)
  • فوچی قارنلو (fıçı karınlı, barrel-bellied)
  • فوچی مالی (fıçı malı, goods sold in a barrel)
  • فوچی پنیری (fıçı peniri, fresh cheese in brine)
  • فوچی چشمه‌سی (fıçı çeşmesi, plug of a barrel)
  • فوچیجی (fuçıcı, fıçıcı, cooper, barrelmaker)

Descendants

  • Turkish: fıçı
  • Albanian: fuçi
  • Armenian: ֆըչի (fəčʻi), ֆիչի (fičʻi)
  • Ubykh: фыҽы (fəĉə)

Further reading

  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “فوچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 432
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fıçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1573
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “فوچی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 346b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فوچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 913
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dolium”, 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[3], Vienna, column 423
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فوچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3555
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 50
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fıçı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فوچی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1399