یورغانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یورغان (yorğan, “quilt”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

یورغانجی • (yorğancı)

  1. quilter, a maker or seller of quilts

Derived terms

  • یورغانجیلق (yorğancılık, “the profession or work of a quilter”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yorgancı
  • → Albanian: jorganxhi
  • → Armenian: եօրղանճի (eōrġanči), ⇒ Յորղանճյան (Yorġančyan)
  • → Bulgarian: юрганджи́я (jurgandžíja), ⇒ Юрганджиев (Jurgandžiev)
  • →⇒ Greek: Γεωργατζής (Georgatzís), Γεωργαντζής (Georgantzís)
  • → Romanian: iorgangiu

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yorgancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5360
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یورغانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1362
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یورغانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2213
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 4)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎[3], volume 137, number 4, →DOI, page 320
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