كوركجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From كورك (kürek, oar; shovel) +‎ ـجی (-ci, -cü, occupational suffix).

Noun

كوركجی • (kürekci)

  1. rower, oarsman, a person who rows a boat, either alone or with others
  2. maker or seller of shovels, peels and any other similar instruments
Descendants
  • Turkish: kürekçi
  • Armenian: քիւրէքճի (kʻiwrēkʻči), Քյուրեքճյան (Kʻyurekʻčyan)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kürekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2902
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Remex”, 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[1], Vienna, column 1458
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوركچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 4064
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1587
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis[4], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 171

Etymology 2

From كورك (kürk, fur) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cü, occupational suffix).

Noun

كوركجی • (kürkcü)

  1. furrier, a person who sells, makes, repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in clothing made of fur
Descendants

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kürkçü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2904
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوركجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[5] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1049
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pellio”, 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[6], Vienna, column 1261
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوركچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[7], Vienna, column 4064
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1587
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis[9], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 171