صوباجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صوبا (soba, “stove, heater”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

صوباجی • (sobacı)

maker or seller of stoves

Descendants

Turkish: sobacı
→⇒ Armenian: Սոբաջյան (Sobaǰyan), Սոպաճյան (Sopačyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sobacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4276
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوباجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 770
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوباجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1189

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