بورغوجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بورغو (burgu, “any boring instrument”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

بورغوجی • (burgucu)

  1. maker or seller of borers, drills, augers or gimlets

Descendants
  • Turkish: burgucu
  • →⇒ Armenian: Պուրկուճյան (Purkučyan)

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burgucu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 702
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورغوجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 1)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎, volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 61
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