اشكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اشك (eşek, “donkey”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اشكجی • (eşekci)

  1. dealer in donkeys or donkey-driver
    Synonym: مركبجی (merkebci)

Descendants
  • Turkish: eşekçi
  • → Armenian: էշեքճի (ēšekʻči)

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eşekci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1497
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Asinarius”, 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, Vienna, column 90
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اشكجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 243
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 122
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