آتشجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آتش (ateş, “fire”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

آتشجی • (ateşci)

stoker, a person who stokes coal, especially one on a steamship or steam train

Descendants

Turkish: ateşçi

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ateşçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 345
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آتشجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 5
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آتشجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 19

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