كرپیچجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كرپیچ (kerpiç, “mudbrick, adobe”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كرپیچجی • (kerpiçci)

maker or seller of mudbricks or adobe bricks

Descendants

Turkish: kerpiççi
→ Armenian: քէրփիճճի (kʻērpʻičči)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kerpiççi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2561
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كرپیچجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1019

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