قوغه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قوغه (koğa, “bucket, pail”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قوغه‌جی • (koğacı)

maker or seller of buckets, pails, or similar containers
bucketer, a person employed to use a bucket in some capacity

Descendants

→⇒ Armenian: Գովաճյան (Govačyan)

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوغه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1490

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