قوقله‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قوقله (kukla, “doll, puppet, marionette”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قوقله‌جی • (kuklacı)

maker, seller, or exhibitor of dolls, puppets and marionettes

Descendants

Turkish: kuklacı

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuklacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2824
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوقله‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1493

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