قویچی

See also: قويچى

Chagatai

Alternative forms

  • قویجی (qoyči)

Etymology

By surface analysis, قوی (qoy, “sheep”) +‎ ـچی (-či, “occupational suffix”).

Noun

قویچی (qoyči) (plural قویچی‌لار (qoyčilar))

  1. shepherd, pastor

Descendants

  • Uyghur: قويچى (qoychi)
  • Uzbek: qoʻychi

Further reading

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  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) “قویچی”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎[1] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 242
  • Schluessel, Eric (2018) “قویچی”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎[2], Michigan Publishing, page 126
  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “قوی”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎[3] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 440
  • Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880) “قویچی”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)‎[4], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 159
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